Quotes About History

'Bamboozled' is the grassroots that will enlighten Americans from all backgrounds and political affiliations to the true history of the Democrat party and the facts about what liberal policies have done to our nation and communities of color.

When I was younger, I remember families like mine who had to deal with the disastrous policies of the 1970s.

American history and the black experience are inextricable. And both are inextricable from policing. Far more often than not, that's been a good thing.

Race is something that's always haunted American policing.

Looking back to when I joined, some areas of policing were barred for women. So you couldn't do full public order training, you couldn't carry a firearm as a woman in the Met until 1988, there were no women dog handlers, and there was probably one woman in CID.

'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.

Two thirds of a century ago, we were given a national policy. It was made to fit the conditions of the day.

There is no Polish culture without Jewish culture.

Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

My family history, like that of many Polish, German and Jewish families from Central Europe in the 20th century, is complex.

I'm happy to be part of the UFC and I'm happy to be the first Polish champion and the first European women's champion.

Polish culture has always had a strong anti-Semitic undercurrent. There has been awful persecution.

The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.

By uploading 40 years of 'Ecologist' editions online, we will be creating the world's most extensive ecological archive. 'The Ecologist' will continue to set the environmental and political agenda here and abroad.

I started my political career facing lynch mobs.

Donald Trump begins his political career in birtherism. That idea is connected to a very, very old notion that African-Americans are not citizens.

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

Like wealth, or health, political freedom may simply be something that people don't value if they've always had it.

Madurai is a city with a long political history. It was at the centre of the anti-Brahmin movement, the anti-Hindi movement, the Dravidian movement, and was a pro-LTTE city. Yet, this city has elected me, the very antithesis of all these movements.

The way I work: I pick a country. I learn the political history - I mean I really learn it; I read until it sinks in. Once I read the political history, I can project and find the clandestine history. And then I people it with the characters.

Political history is not the only way to approach historical figures.

In Israel's short history, army commanders and the heads of the intelligence agencies have often advocated the use of force and in many cases showed contempt for the law and human rights. Political leaders have typically been more measured.