#history

Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come of it. ↗

— Charles Carleton Coffin

#the-story-of-liberty #age

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity. ↗

— C.L.R. James

#history #masses #men

Intercourse was now forbidden to everyone but married people; bundling disappeared. In its place young courting couples engaged in "petting"--which, interpreted broadly, meant that they were could do anything sexual short of intercourse. Women were now held responsible for controlling men's beastly sexuality--halting them from simply plunging ahead--at the same time that they were expected to be sexually innocent: an impossible position. ↗

— Leora Tanenbaum

#history #sexuality #men

The abscess is a distant memory. The pain is gone. This dinner with her hosts and her health-care team, this week of seeing another country and another culture, this time of being in demand, this moment is reality. I am a lucky girl, (Judy) thinks. ↗

— Shireen Jeejeebhoy

#canadian-history #health #inspirational #medicine #inspirational

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. ↗

— Jill Lepore

#politics #imagination

Learn from your history, but don’t live in it. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#history #inspirational #learn #live #mistakes

I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #motivational #success #victim-mentality #victory

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them then he is always stirring up some wary or other in order that the people may require a leader. ↗

— Plato

#history #liberty #politics #freedom

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us. ↗

— Luis Valdez

#freedom #history #liberty #native-american #society

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#europe #history #long #mostly #terrorism