Quotes About History

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

There is no more Palestine. Finished.

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.

I feel that the Jews have always had a special connection to this part of the world, which in geographical terms was called Palestine for so many centuries.

There is a famous saying: 'It's hard to be a Jew.' It's also hard to be a Palestinian. I know that.

Israeli independence - what we Arabs call al-Naqba, 'The Catastrophe' - it created Palestinian identity more than anything else.

The Palestinian people were governing themselves before the creation of the State of Israel.

The Palestinians have tried everything, and by God, it's Israel's governments that taught us that the only thing the Israelis appreciate is force.

Israel defines Palestinians more than anything else.

My old man worked for Pan American.

So everything that ever happened, we knew about in Panama.

Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected.

In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.

Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied.

The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.

When I was younger, I had these romantic ideas about the Black Panther Party and what it meant to be a part of the civil rights movement. Then we're here, and it's dangerous. And it's dangerous to say, 'Black lives matter.'

For the score of 'Black Panther,' the heart and soul came from immersing myself in the rich musical history of the griots in West Africa. I was following these brilliant musicians all over rural Senegal, learning their musical language.

Te Papa Museum is brilliant.

In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages.

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.

History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper.

To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.

We have always been taught that hockey is our national game, but it is only in general knowledge books and not on official papers.