History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. - Martin Luther King Jr
Two thousand years of history Black History could not be wiped away so easily You have to be someone. - Bob Marley
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history. - George Orwell
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. - Helen Keller
I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents. - Pablo Picasso
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
If we could all take a sober look at our history, then we would no longer see this nostalgic attitude to the Soviet past that predominates among the less affected part of our society. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. - Albert Schweitzer
A wise man once said the true history of the world is a history of great conversations in elegant rooms. - Peter Dinklage
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. - Victor Hugo
The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing only - gold. - Woody Harrelson
Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. - C.S. Lewis
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings. - George R. R. Martin
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today. - Henry Ford
History is replete with the stories of strong-minded, resolutely willed individuals, who, steadfastly holding to their inner convictions, have been able to inspire their fellow-man, and in the face of tremendous and determined opposition have literally created out of nothing great businesses, huge empires, and new worlds. - Claude M. Bristol
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