#history

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#any #country #democracy #either #foundation

I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#come #fox #got #history #i

I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#aware #became #black #black history #book

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#black americans #book #civil #civil rights #context

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

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My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

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Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#greatest #history #look #men #people

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#itself #never #patterns #political #repeats

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#high #high school #history #school #taught