Contentment Quote by Anonymous

No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth.…

— Eduardo Galeano

Historically marginalised people - by gender, race or nationality - aren't willing to be silent any longer on the crimes of the past and…

— Dawn Foster

Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

— Erin Gruwell

Silences enter the process of historical production at four crucial moments: the moment of fact creation (the making of sources); the moment of fact…

— Michel-Rolph Trouillot

History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.

— William L. Shirer

“There is an underside to every age about which history does not often speak, because history is written from records left by the privileged”.”

— Howard Zinn

The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.

— Mark Haddon

“If there’s one thing that stands out above all others in my research, it’s that history doesn’t sit still. Doesn’t sit silent. It makes…

— Josh Malerman

One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having…

— Michael Bywater

Any historical narrative is a bundle of silences.

— Michel-Rolph Trouillot

There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in…

— Joseph Anderson

History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely…

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich