Quotes about History

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

To engage with the Church's past is to see something of the Church's future.

salvation does not bypass the history and memory of guilt, but rather builds upon and from it.

we need to bear in mind that the Reformation debate was not one between self-designated Catholics and Protestants; it was a debate about where the Catholic Church was to be found. 'Is the Pope a Catholic?' was not a joke in the sixteenth century.

But the reconciliation of the world to God cannot be described as an episode in history among others; it is a change in what historical agents may hope for, think about and pray about.

Memory is the 'self', because it is my presence to myself, the way in which I constitute myself and understand myself as a subject with a continuous history of experience.

These negroes aren't asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation.

Four hundred years the white man has had his foot-long knife in the black man's back--and now the white man starts to wiggle the knife out, maybe six inches! The black man's supposed to be grateful? Why, if the white man jerked the knife out, it's still going to leave a scar!

Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual