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.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

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

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

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

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

I owe nothing to Women’s Lib.

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

I don’t think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that’s now history.

Sometimes 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.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

Let 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.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

People seem to know about May Day everywhere except where it began, here in the United States of America. That’s because those in power have done everything they can to erase its real meaning.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

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

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women’s Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women’s rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

The Medici created and destroyed me.

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

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

The first democratic revolution was England in the 1640s.

Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.

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.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

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.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.

The proper study of mankind is woman.

As soon as I arrived in the Indies, in the first island which I found, I took some of the natives by force, in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts. And so it was that they soon understood us, and we them, either by speech or by signs, and they have been very serviceable.

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.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.

It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

Feminists wish women to seem like men. They’re not men.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.