The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
Noam ChomskyIn remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
Queen Elizabeth III truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.
BonoAmong the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
Mahatma GandhiHistory is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon BonaparteHate crime is not new in the United States.
Kamala HarrisBy 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.
Noam ChomskyWe find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
Abraham LincolnFor my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis BaconHistory will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston ChurchillI wish I could say to all those people who consider themselves anarchists or radicals: Please join the nonviolent movement. This is how Gandhi freed India. If Gandhi freed India, we can certainly free the United States from our racism, misogyny, and bigotry.
Dolores HuertaGeography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
John F. KennedyThe Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ‚cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.
Bill GatesOn October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.
Noam ChomskyThe guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
Clint EastwoodIn the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.
Elizabeth KennyThe British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
Queen Elizabeth IIThe revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It’ll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn’t been reusable.
Elon MuskI don’t think President Trump is a racist.
John KennedyIf you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. LewisPrejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya AngelouPropaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
Noam ChomskyAs a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.
Joyce MeyerTwenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
Fidel CastroI want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.
Lando NorrisIn one thousand years of Russia’s existence, its first popular national election ever to be held occurred in June 1991. Six days later, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed in Moscow!
Russell M. NelsonI’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.
John WayneYou think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman’s behind.
Muhammad AliI don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.
Fidel CastroThe titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.
Nelson MandelaHomophobia is real in this country.
Kamala HarrisIf there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.
Nelson MandelaI became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.
Clint EastwoodAIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.
Bill GatesThe power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.
James BaldwinIf a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace ThackerayAnybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThrowing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
Benjamin DisraeliWe pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.
Nelson MandelaSometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas JeffersonTo walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George OrwellThe reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.
James BaldwinHistory isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
C. S. LewisThe British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
George Bernard ShawNo great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas CarlyleLet us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Ronald ReaganI’ve been interested in Japan since the 1930s, when I read about Japan’s vicious crimes in Manchuria and China.
Noam ChomskyA black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.
Maya AngelouI got no quarrel with them Vietcong.
Muhammad AliDuring a few days‘ halt near Vesontio for the provision of corn and other supplies, a panic arose from inquiries made by our troops and remarks uttered by Gauls and traders, who affirmed that the Germans were men of a mighty frame and an incredible valour and skill at arms.
Julius CaesarHow wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
Maya AngelouBut let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.
George H. W. BushThe propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
Aldous HuxleyPeople who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
Joe BidenPoetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
PlatoThe megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Bertrand RussellHistory should be written as philosophy.
VoltaireHistorically, the stuff of the universe goes on becoming concentrated into ever more organized forms of matter.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin