Quotes About History

How different South Africa's cricketing achievements, and indeed the future of the country itself, might have been if racism had not denied Frank Roro the opportunity of batting with Bruce Mitchell in the Lord's sunshine.

We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.

The more I study history the more I realize how little mankind has changed. There are no new scripts, just different actors.

Sometimes, to move forward, we must be willing to look back.

We all swim deep in the river of our ancestry.

What else are we going to do? An alien starship, Bartolomeo. As far as we know, this is the first and only time in human history that we have had any contact, any evidence of an intelligent alien civilization. We can't just stop now, leave it all behind as if it didn't exist." That

Before that, there was no official ship History. The only official records were the ship's logs." He sighed heavily, shaking his head. "But they were all destroyed. Which is why the History was begun, to provide an alternate

September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took down the maps in the classroom, And when they were safely furled, We told the young what they wanted to hear, That they were immune from a menacing world. But history isn't a folded-up map, Or an unread textbook tome; Now we know history's a fireman's child Waiting at home alone.

There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.

Of course, the lower classes do not acquiesce peaceably to their exploitation; they resist, although for as long as there is private property they merely succeed in replacing one form of exploitation with another. For this reason, in the words of the Communist Manifesto, so far all the history of societies has been the history of class struggles.

Chin now joined chai (tea) and shchi (cabbage soup) to form a triad around which revolved a great deal of Russian life.

We don't really know what Ebola has done in the past, and we don't know what it might do in the future.

Epidemiologists think that smallpox killed roughly one billion people during its last hundred years of activity on earth.

You all know how black humor started? It started on slave ships. Cat was rowing and dude says, "What you laughin' about?" And he says, "Yesterday I was a king."

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.

What the maps did not show was that Japanese farmers and workers had usually been there for decades, even generations, before the bases and other facilities were built.

Estelle Ishigo

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

Only if we can develop a broadly shared understanding of our common history will it be practical to consider steps we could take to fulfill our obligations.

The Veterans Administration subsidized the "Sunkist Gardens" development in Southeast Los Angeles in 1950, for white veterans only.

Benjamin Tillman led the Red Shirts; the massacre propelled him to a twenty-four-year career as the most vitriolic racist in the U.S. Senate

understanding de jure segregation,

In the 1930s, the Ford plant had a sign in front, "No Mexican or Black Workers Wanted,

In 1926, Indianapolis adopted a regulation permitting African Americans to move to a white area only if a majority of its white residents gave their written consent, although the city's legal staff had advised that the ordinance was unconstitutional.