#history

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history. ↗

— August Wilson

#away #forget #history #insist #itself

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#disagree #events #feel #guess #history

I just feel that I don't agree with sensationalized versions of history or me. Any version that's sensationalized. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#any #feel #history #i #just

I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#aspect #began #compelling #continues #denied

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#does #entrust #freedom #history #long

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#annals #behind #commonwealth #different #empire

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#dublin #garden #here #history #i

Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us. ↗

— Buchi Emecheta

#history #over #portrayed #re-examine #should

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#history #largely #liberty #observance #procedural

If you think you have it tough, read history books. ↗

— Bill Maher

#history #history books #read #story books #think