#history

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business. ↗

I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it. ↗

— Eddie Bernice Johnson

#convince #country #discomfort #especially #get

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#after #american #army #classes #dance

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history, or nothing happens. ↗

— Coretta Scott King

#beginning #every #great #happens #history

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#bad #bad people #clamor #good #good people

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#been #behave #believe #haven #history

Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#history #i #i think #movement #solidarity

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#could #end #fulfilling #greek #his

Most foreign policies that history has marked highly, in whatever country, have been originated by leaders who were opposed by experts. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#country #experts #foreign #highly #history

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions. ↗