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History Quotes by James W. Loewen
- Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United States, without regard…
- Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.
- Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.
- In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally…
- The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.
- Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a line…
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