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" For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the forces of history or superheroes who acquire mythic status not just because of their deeds but because of their scarcity. "

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" It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confined to the domestic sphere. "

Terry Eagleton

Compassion

Lie

Values

" The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. "

" How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected. "

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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" Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak. "

" The Russians had got a real head-start into space; America was playing catch-up. "

" Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. "

" World history is a court of judgment. "

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Judgment

World

Court

" I knew a lot of black scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, and female mathematicians and engineers, women of all backgrounds. So this idea that anyone could be an engineer, a mathematician, or whatever, was something that I had grown up with and thought was really normal. "

" They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them. "

" The nation was awakened by that deafening shot. "

" There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations. "

" For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study. "

" The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. "

" I love history, and Churchill is one of my favorite people to study. He's a fascinating, fascinating man. "

Douglas Booth

History

Man

" I feel like, in a lot of ways, 'Hidden Figures' is the book that I wrote and have been waiting to read since I learned to read. "

" Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. "

" The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated. "

" We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. "

Franklin Pierce Adams

History

Aggression

Nothing

" Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. "

" The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. "

" The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. "

" If you only think of me during Black History Month, I must be failing as an educator and as an astrophysicist. "

" I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate. "

" Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? "

" So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. "

" The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster. "

" Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work that was done at Langley. Between World War I and World War II, they did just tremendous amount of fundamental research into basically making airplanes safer, making them more stable. "

" The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. "

" The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. "

" 'London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself. "