History Quotes

"History will vindicate those who stood against oppression."

"The voice of woman must echo through the halls of history."

"I am about as near to a slave as any one that was ever born in the State of New York."

"I have been a slave, and I know what it is like to have no rights."

"The ancients tell us that documents bring blessed days."

"Character is destiny, and the character of a nation determines its fate."

"Those who cannot read the lessons of history are condemned to repeat them."

"A nation that ignores its past will have no future worth living."

"A nation's greatness is not measured in gold but in the character of its people."

"The wisdom of ages, in reducing this to practice, is the collected wisdom of mankind."

"Let those who come after us know that we did not surrender."

"History will vindicate those who fought for justice."

"The Underground Railroad operated with the greatest publicity; yet it was a secret."

"The facts of history show that the Bible was written by men."

"We must never forget what happened. We must never forget the lessons."

"The Constitution was written by men for men."

"The world will remember this struggle long after we are gone."

"I have always been of opinion that a serious attention should be paid to the preservation of the records of public transactions."

"The condition of woman is not wholly unlike that of the slave."

"I believe that history will vindicate the cause for which we have fought."

"History is a powerful teacher. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

"Segregation was not just a Southern problem; it was an American shame."

"A nation that forgets its history is doomed to repeat its mistakes."

"A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable."

"I value the past only as it is of use to the present."

"The growth of the nation has been in spite of slavery, not because of it."

"The Negro in the South is in a more independent position than the Negro in the North."

"The negro is at his best in the South."

"The Negro has always been a sort of seventh son, born with a veil and gifted with second-sight in this American world."

"The problem of the color-line will be one of the central problems facing the world in the twentieth century."