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History Quotes by Nelson Mandela
- I don't think there is much history can say about me. I just want to be remembered as part of that collective.
- When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis…
- History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.
- These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.
- Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people.
- It is the dictate of history to bring to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the wishes and aspirations…
- The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all of them deserve…
- One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this…
- It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people.
- The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind!
- History and the generations to come will judge our leaders by the decisions they make in the coming weeks.
- Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
- During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against…
- Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor…
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