History Quotes - Page 2

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!

I just couldn't move. History had me glued to the seat.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!

America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But don't misuse a household pet.

If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction.

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.

We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.

History teaches us no race, no people, no nation has ever been freed through cowardice, through cringing, through bowing and scraping, but all that has been achieved to the glory of mankind, to the glory and honour of races and nations was through the manly determination and effort of those who lead and those who are led.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated.

We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world will say to you, 'You are not worthy to enjoy the blessings of democracy or anything else'.

History repeats itself and that's just how it goes.

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

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed, unless the evil is restrained, seems to me certain.... The greatest and consequently most urgent evil now is the press.... All journals, pamphlets in Germany must be under a censorship.

I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.