Quotes About History

Historians are prophets of the past, not of the future.

In our home we have many movie props from old film productions.

No matter what I do, I'll be forever known as the Manson prosecutor.

I like to write stories that read like historical fiction about great, world-changing events through the lens of a flawed protagonist.

In any novel I write, I have in my mind several things which happened in the protagonist's past which I never mention in the book.

So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.

Hale had answered when the President of the United States can't go to a city of the United States and be protected, we've come to a very difficult time in our nation's history, and encouraged him to come.

Growing up in Augusta in such a protected and loving community is something that I really enjoy talking about. I love talking about - even though I grew up, of course, in the time of segregated schools: Brown vs. Board of Education came along after I was already in first grade.

It was the Conservatives who first protected people in the mills.

The Internet, as the most open free-speech institution in history, has become a major factor in gun owners' ability to achieve success in preserving and protecting the Second Amendment.

Our efforts to preserve and protect the Alamo are first and foremost about preserving and protecting the story of the battle itself.

Portland has a long history of embracing the most important of American values. Those are the rights to assembly and the rights to free speech. And we're proud of protecting those core American values.

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Trade protectionism has an American lineage dating back to the Founders; that lineage is distinct from white nationalism.

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.

Every journalist loves a peaceful protest -whether it makes news, shakes up a political season, or holds out the possibility of altering history.

Our country was founded on protest. Otherwise, we would still be a colony of England.

Portland has a proud history of protest.

When I look at American history, I see how it has been driven by resistance and protest against a system that has been oppressive to not just Black people but to women, to members of the LGBTQ community.

Hollywood has a long, storied and often problematic history of political protest movements.

In the '60s and '70s, a protest song was a genre in music.

The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned Irish history in school.

Every day, I would show up, and there were no kids, just me and my teacher in my classroom. Every day, I would be escorted by marshals past a mob of people protesting and boycotting the school. This went on for a whole year.

Protests are the very essence of America! It is a country founded in protest.