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History Quotes by Carter G. Woodson
- We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the…
- We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world will…
- If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it…
- Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.
- And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.
- The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that…
- History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to…
- What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and…
- We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough