History Quotes

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

True there has been more talk of peace since 1945 than, I should think, at any other time in history. At least we hear more and read more about it because man's words, for good or ill, can now so easily reach the millions.

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

News is the first rough draft of history.

The United Nations was founded in the aftermath of World War II, just as the world was beginning to learn the full horrors of history's worst genocide, the Holocaust that consumed 6 million Jews and 3 million others in Europe.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized.

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

Art history is less explosive than the rest of history, so it sinks faster into the pulverized regions of time.

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.

When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.