“Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.”
History is not just names and dates — it is the story of how we got here and a warning about where we might be headed. These quotes look at the past with curiosity, respect, and the awareness that those who ignore it tend to repeat it.
“Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.”
“Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.”
“I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks.”
“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.”
“I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.”
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
“I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?”
“One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.”
“The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.”
“There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.”
“De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.”
“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”
“Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.”
“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”
“Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.”
“History is a vision of God's creation on the move.”