History Quotes

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

"History is written by those who survive to tell it."

"To be black in America is to carry the weight of history."

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

"To be forgotten is to be erased from history."

"We are all products of our history, but we need not be prisoners of it."

"To understand America is to understand the struggle of those excluded from its promises."

"We lived in a museum, and we were taught how to conduct ourselves there."

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."

"The fact that they are very white and very soft in places, and that being white and soft seems to be the leading characteristic of this world's success, is something I must learn to understand."

"The function of memory is to provide a foundation for identity."

"We are born into history, but we create our destiny."

"The Negro speaks of rivers."

"We should emphasize not Negro History, but the contributions of Negroes to American history."

"The past haunts us not because we remember it, but because we forget its lessons."

"History is written by those who refuse to let truth be forgotten."

"People are imprisoned in history and history is imprisoned in them."

"Every legend contains its residuum of fact."

"History is not what happened; history is what we believe happened and what we choose to remember."

"The past is never truly past; it lives within us and shapes our present."

"History is written by those who understand that words have power."

"History repeats not because we forget it but because we refuse to learn from it."

"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme."

"If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday."

"There is a time in the life of every nation when it must decide upon its future."

"The past is not simply behind us; it lives within us, shaping every choice we make."

"History is not just something that happens. It's something that we create."

"The past is never just the past; it is alive in us."

"We must learn from the past but not be chained by it."

"The past haunts the present, and until we acknowledge this, we cannot move forward."