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" From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. "

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" My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate. "

Henry Kissinger

" Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history. "

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

" In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" My only advice is, follow your dream and do whatever you like to do the most. I chose journalism because I wanted to be in the places where history was being made. "

" The defining moment in American economic history is when Bill Clinton lobbied to get China into the World Trade Organization. It was the worst political and economic mistake in American history in the last 100 years. "

" Harlem is not a playground for rich bankers and consultants. It's got students of all colors. It's got old people who keep history and tell tall tales. "

Marcus Samuelsson

" I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history. "

David Christian

" Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. "

Francis Cabot Lowell

" Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind. "

" Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you! "

Nikita Khrushchev

" My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit. "

John Henrik Clarke

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

Elizabeth Warren

" The fastest manned vehicle in history was Apollo 10. It reached 25,000 mph. "

Stephen Hawking

" The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. "

" The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. "

" A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests. "

Aristide Briand

" Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it. "

" It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. "

Mitch McConnell

" You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise. "

" I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school. "

" When one is the type of writer who cares about the meaning of the historically specific setting, the history itself is not something that I would call backdrop. It's not window dressing for a timeless relationship about love and betrayal. For me, the setting and the specific history are active co-agents with me in trying to form the novel. "

" It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. "

" The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier. "

" The Ukraine has a long history of either being part of the Soviet Union or within that sphere. "

" People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. "

" I don't want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history. "

" Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music. "

" If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing. "

" OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us. "