Quotes About Identity

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.

The Jew has his anchorage not in place but in time, in his highly developed sense of history as personal context. Six thousand years of self-awareness are a homeland.

It's a special club. It's got history. When I slip on the Manchester United shirt, it's like I'm wearing its past. So you have to sacrifice yourself for this club.

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

...They cannot escape their history any more than you yourself can lose your shadow.

Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.

There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.

I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist!

Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.

People find a sense of being, a sense of worth and substance being associated with land. Association with final roots gives us not only a history but proclaims us heirs to a future.

Its been nearly 1.5 years since the last PLUS 8 record, but it seemed fitting that this record in particular, made by a skinny white kid from Canada, became part of the labels collection and history.

It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny, that race's destiny.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.