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" The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books. "

Chance The Rapper

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" History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past. "

Walter Cronkite

" What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos. "

" I actively pursue experiences that are unlike any others that I've experienced and cultures that I don't know and unfamiliar places and unfamiliar history and things like that. "

" I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together and paid £4 for it in a junk shop. We collected owl pellets, ostrich eggs and sheep skulls for our natural history museum at home. "

Deborah Moggach

" If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter. The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist. "

" History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity. "

" An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome. "

William Manchester

" 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. "

" Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank. "

Madeleine Albright

" I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture. "

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

" At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology, politics, international relations and economics. History is also an ideal discipline for almost all careers in the law, the civil service and the private sector. "

" History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history. "

Clarence Darrow

History Repeats Itself

" The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides. "

" The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it. "

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

" 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. "

" If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. "

" When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it. "

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

Richard M. Nixon

" We can only imagine the history of the free world today if, at the end of the Civil War, there had been two countries: the United States and the Confederate States of America. "

Douglas Brinkley

" People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. "

James A. Baldwin

" Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people. "

" Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it. "

" 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. "

" Manchester United are not just some club. To be part of this club also means to be part of a great history. "

Henrikh Mkhitaryan

" The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock. "

Michael Specter

" Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant. "

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