Quotes About Awareness

We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

We did not realise how fragile our civilisation was.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

History doesn't choose individual people. History chooses everyone. Every day. The only question is: How long will you ignore the call?

You accept things as they are, not as you wish they were in this moment...The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the present.

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.

I just feel like history is very much alive and important and I don't, you know, I can't worry about whether people get it or not, per se.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

I know so little about any history. How little do I know even about the history of myself.

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in bondage across the globe.

If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.

We cannot help living in history. We can only fail to be aware of it.

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.

The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

If Martin Luther King were here he'd be very surprised at some of the sugar-coated versions of American history presented today.

I'm the type that thinks if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.

I appeal: Learn with me the lessons of history and of grace, so my children will not be afraid to say the word 'AIDS' when I am gone. Then, their children and yours may not need to whisper it at all.

You don't realize 'till you get here what a moment in history you're a part of.

I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it.