History Quotes

"I declare that woman has been the slave of man."

"I make it a point to study the historical development of every nation"

"Slavery did not mean love of the southern white people for the black. It meant the opposite."

"We must never forget where we came from and what we fought for."

"Our generation has a rendezvous with destiny."

"The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife."

"The Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil."

"The great gift of the Negro to America has been the gift of sorrow."

"Negro history should be a weapon of liberation."

"To ignore the past is to be condemned to repeat it."

"History teaches us that moral progress requires persistent effort."

"I was born an anti-slavery person. When I was a child, my father told me of the slave trade."

"The true course is to remember that woman has always been the true civilization-maker."

"My father and mother were also slaves, but had little opportunity to give me anything of value except existence."

"The institution of slavery was nothing more than another form of economic exploitation."

"Slavery and its attendant horrors had stamped upon millions of my people the marks of degradation."

"Women have suffered immemorial ages at the hands of that beast, man, and it has now become his victim."

"The history of mankind is the history of repeated injuries against women."

"There is no better teacher than history. Learn from the past."

"The wealth of America is built on the backs of the enslaved African."

"The Constitution, as originally drafted and conceived, made us the most powerful nation in the world. But the Constitution, as written, was defective."

"One of the things we have to be careful about in America is we have to make sure that we're always mindful of the past."

"The Constitution was written in 1787, but it was not intended for all people."

"The Constitution was a promise. We're still trying to keep that promise."

"History does not always repeat itself, but we must learn from it."

"When you have finished reading every history book written, you still will not have truly learned history."

"The assumption that a people taken at random from all ranks and conditions of three continents of Africa would readily yield to the control of Europeans, is certainly optimistic."

"The great majority of the Negro people of the United States still live in the South, and are farmers."

"The Negro church is the only social institution of the Negroes which started in the African forest and survived slavery."

"The Negro American stands at the crossroads of history."