I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that’s been going on since the Second World War.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

London is a roost for every bird.

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.

We don’t want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful – not only to that member of the community but the entire community.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

As 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.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry ‚Native passes‘ issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn’t white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

By 1960, the South Africans knew that they were becoming a pariah state.

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.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I’m using my own memory, and I’m using my collective memory.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

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

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

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 was a little girl in World War II and I’m used to being freed by Americans.

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

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

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

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.

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

Ever since the morning of May 29, 1953, when Tenzing Norgay and I became the first climbers to step onto the summit of Mount Everest, I’ve been called a great adventurer.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

From the beginning, Mandela and Tambo was besieged with clients. We were not the only African lawyers in South Africa, but we were the only firm of African lawyers. For Africans, we were the firm of first choice and last resort.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

We’ve used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we’re running a federal deficit that’s 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It’s more stimulative than any policy we’ve followed since World War II.

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

In 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!

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

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

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

You go back to the 17th century, the commercial and industrial centers of the world were China and India.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.