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History Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
- American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
- People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
- The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of…
- To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens…
- Everything now, we must assume, is in our hands; we have no right to assume otherwise. If we do not falter in our duty now,…
- You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have…
- James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in…
- History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.
- To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An…
- The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history…
- Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst,…
- You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.
More History Quotes
- 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