The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

The history of man is the history of crimes and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build we must build a defence against repetition.

My major allegiance has been to storytelling not to history.

If you look at U.S. history through religious history there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.

It's a struggle but that's why we exist so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves or their history all over again.

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals we were in a new era.

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

In many ways history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up and the walls of segregation came down.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

History is mostly guessing the rest is prejudice.

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.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds as it amuses the fancy as it improves the understanding and as it strengthens virtue.

I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s I can look 1970s hippie-chic or sometimes I'll pull that '80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts probably because the less mature a nation the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.

Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.

I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.

Our history is not our destiny.

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.