For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

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.

Geography 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.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

No one tells me what to do with my music. Real. My mom doesn’t tell what to say, how is someone else going to?

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

Significant anniversaries are solemnly commemorated – Japan’s attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, for example.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

History is written by the victors.

American imperialism is often traced to the takeover of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii in 1898.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

I got my own back.

I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

The last time I visited Qaddafi was in May of 2001, 15 years after Reagan attacked his rather modest residence where he took me to show me how it had been left.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

I’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.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

In 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.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

I think, when you are growing up, you have to pull apart from what your mother wants or needs. You’ve got to go your own way, and that’s what I did.