Quotes About Remembrance

When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it.

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

We cannot escape history.

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

History is the memory of things said and done.

History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.

History: a collection of epitaphs.

A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.

Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history.

They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.

Only the vanquished remember history.

I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.

Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

History is a bucket of ashes.

The history of America is the history of a genocide that didn't end yet, the genocide of American civilizations.

There is also, in any history, the buried, the wasted, and the lost.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, a man is demoted to the lower animals.

When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today.

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.

Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes - and I see many of them in the audience here today.

I wanted to completely honor The REV and pay tribute to him and carry on the legacy that he intended with this record.