- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
History Quotes
Personal history and the record we leave.
Quotes about "history" here move between the personal and the public — early museum visits that shaped a scientific mindset, and a family history full of preachers and former priests. For enduring, timeless sayings, see Long quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
History is formed by the people, those who have power and those without power. Each one of us makes history.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Issues over same-sex marriage and LGBT people in the PCUSA are not new: there is a 40-plus year history of arguments and tacit agreements over the issue of sexuality in the denomination, and the first openly gay minister in the PCUSA was ordained in 2011.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black churches have long been targets of white supremacists who burned and bombed them in an effort to terrorize the black communities those churches anchored. One of the most egregious terrorist acts in U.S. history was committed against a black church in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963.
- Episcopal
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- Nov 07, 2020
The shooter's choice of Emanuel AME was most likely deliberate, given the church's storied history. It was the first African Methodist Episcopal church in the South, founded in 1818 by a group of men including Morris Brown, a prominent pastor, and Denmark Vesey, who would go on to lead a large, yet failed, slave revolt in Charleston.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Charleston shooting is a result of an ingrained culture of racism and a history of terrorism in America. It should be covered as such.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many photos of Catholic priests and nuns marching in the Civil Rights movement, most notably at the March on Selma, Ala. in 1965. However, the history of Catholicism in this country tells a different story.
- Black Americans
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite a rich history of black Americans involved in the Catholic Church, invisibility is a big problem for black Catholics in America.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wonder about people's history and their lives, especially people that are a little bit more distant, who obviously have had some kind of a thing, and you know there's some reason why they're not able to connect. It's not because they don't want to. They don't have the ability.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess the reason that I'm a horror fan is that I think it gives people the opportunity to enjoy the feeling of being scared in a safe environment. I think that's why, for all of human history, we've been telling each other scary stories: because it exorcises something that we need to exorcise in a safe place.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020