History Quotes

"History is now and England is a country where you don't have to commit a crime to be punished for one."

"History is written by those with the loudest voices, not the truest stories."

"When we document our own histories, we resist erasure and claim our narratives."

"The archive of Black women's thought is the archive of resistance itself."

"We've already changed the planet so dramatically that we can't live on it the way we used to."

"Historical continuity with the past is not a duty, only a necessity."

"Indigenous peoples have sustained the earth for thousands of years through our knowledge and practice."

"Indigenous resistance is not new; it is ancient and it is ongoing."

"Indigenous resistance to extraction has always been about protecting life."

"The coal industry must become history."

"We inherit a world that has been mortgaged by previous generations."

"We inherit both the weight of history and the possibility of transformation."

"We are living through the end of one world and the beginning of another."

"The history of our species is the history of our choices."

"I am the sum of all my ancestors, and I carry them forward with everything I do."

"Every empire believes it's different, believes its own violence is justified, believes its own propaganda."

"To understand history is to understand that nothing is inevitable except change."

"We've inherited an economy built on the assumption that tomorrow doesn't matter."

"We inherit both the gifts and the debts of history."

"We inherit the legacies of resistance as much as we inherit systems of oppression."

"Future generations will judge us by what we did in this critical moment."

"History will remember this as the era when we chose to act or chose to ignore."

"History will show whether this generation rose to the challenge."

"We are writing the final chapter of a fossil fuel-dependent world."

"History shows us that major transformations happen through collective action."

"History is not something fixed in the past. It's alive and speaking to us all the time."

"We inherited a continent and passed on a state."

"The richest nations have passed out of the huntsman stage of wildlife conservation."

"We reach back to the stone age, mentally, and further back—we, the supermen of this atomic age."

"In the end, there are only two kinds of people: those who fought for the earth and those who failed to."