History Quotes
Those who lived through the great moments reflect on what happened and why it still matters.
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"We must never forget the sacrifices made by those who came before us."Jomo Kenyatta
"We must never forget that we are the custodians of our culture, not its prisoners."Julius Nyerere
"The greatest tragedy of colonialism was not the extraction of resources, but the extraction of dignity."Julius Nyerere
"Our ancestors did not build this society for us to destroy it."Julius Nyerere
"We must learn from history but not be imprisoned by it."Julius Nyerere
"We cannot escape our history, but we can learn from it."Julius Nyerere
"History shows that national liberation movements always triumph in the end."Kwame Nkrumah
"We must learn from history without being imprisoned by it."Kwame Nkrumah
"Tradition is the democracy of the dead"Leon Trotsky
"The victors write history, which is why we must become victors"Leon Trotsky
"History teaches that patience with reaction is defeat"Leon Trotsky
"Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the men for the times."Fidel Castro
"History is the judge of our actions."Fidel Castro
"History shows us that change is inevitable."Fidel Castro
"To study the laws of history is to learn to march in step with history."Che Guevara
"We must learn from history or be condemned to repeat it."Ho Chi Minh
"We are students of history and teachers of the future."Ho Chi Minh
"The wheel of history cannot be stopped by individual resistance."Mao Zedong
"History is written by those who win, but determined by those who act."Mao Zedong
"We must learn from the past to build the future."Mao Zedong
"Economic relations determine social and political institutions."Vladimir Lenin
"The masses are the makers of history."Vladimir Lenin
"Everything that can be said has already been said before the Soviet revolution."Vladimir Lenin
"The capitalist system creates its own gravediggers."Vladimir Lenin
"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce."Vladimir Lenin
"The future is certain, it is only the past that keeps changing."Joseph Stalin
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."Joseph Stalin
"We must study the past to understand the present."Joseph Stalin
"The people are the protagonists of history."Fidel Castro
"The revolution feeds on itself; it consumes its children."Fidel Castro