Quotes About History

Millions of Indonesians who live with secrets in their family who have a sense of that kind of secret that their parents never told them, want to be told about what happened so they can know where they come from.

We've never had somebody to secure the legacy for the 155-pound division.

Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it's still such an overwhelming experience that you could say architecture is that which makes ruins beautiful.

I think I was interested in history without knowing it and that became very clear when I arrived in France. Everything that I was really interested in was there, but I knew nothing, no education, no art education, no education beyond high school. It was extremely overwhelming and it still is.

Conflict with the United States is one of the overwhelming facts of Latin American history.

Indian artists are working with a history that's overwhelming and rich.

The people of the North owe to the colored race a deep obligation that is no easy matter to fulfill.

It is to such men as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson and Jackson and Franklin, all most lowly born, that we owe most of our greatness as a nation.

I owe everything to France.

Horses are such a powerful part of human development and have been since the early ages. We humans owe them so much.

And being that my father is gone in immigrant and I have you know - that I owe my existence to immigration, I think that the fear of immigration that has existed in American history from the first day, I just find it to be wrong.

We borrowed money to fight the Revolutionary War, and so there was a debt owed. We paid it. If we have done that for 235 years, if we have done it ever since this country has existed, we can do it again.

Teach her story to future generations, and at least the moral debt owed to Jean McConville can be repaid. Jean McConville. Jean McConville. Jean McConville.

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.

The first car the family owned was a Model A.

America was made for white men. Literally, at the time of the writing of the new country's Constitution, only white men could own land, and only men who owned land could vote.

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.

I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.

Ordinary Kenyans rightly want to be able to shop safely, and there is a long history of them doing just that, irrespective of their religion or that of the shop owner.

If I can go three grandmothers back and find a slave, that means someone else can go three grandmothers back and find a slave owner. When you interrogate your histories, it forces you to rethink who you are and where you are.

Freedom was the desire of our people throughout centuries. Freedom enabled our people to be owners of their destiny.

I'd fought in the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, having left Oxford to do so.