Black history is American history. Morgan Freeman on history
I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major. Demetri Martin on history
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. Alfred North Whitehead on history
It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually. V. S. Naipaul on history
We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited. Paul Ryan on history
After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history. Condoleezza Rice on history
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. Malcom X on history
Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process. Joseph Gordon-Levitt on history
There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. Woodrow Wilson on history
I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it. Kanye West on history
I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with. Salma Hayek on history
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. Gertrude Stein on history
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. Golda Meir on history
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. Franz Kafka on history
History is Philosophy teaching by example. Thucydides on history
Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other. Marco Rubio on history
History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions. Ken Burns on history
The history of the world is the world's court of justice. Friedrich Schiller on history
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you! Nikita Khrushchev on history
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul. Emma Goldman on history