History Quote by Malcolm X Download Open image “History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.” — Malcolm X ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Memory People
A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better. — I. L. Peretz Copy Share Image
Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history. — Carlton J. H. Hayes Copy Share Image
Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“History and memory aren't the same thing[...] History doesn't abide acts of the imagination but memories depend on it. And memories are as much… — Peter Geye Copy Share Image
Man is an historical animal, with a deep sense of his own past; and if he cannot integrate the past by a history explicit… — Geoffrey Barraclough Copy Share Image
“What is history? What is its significance for humanity? Dr. J. H. Robinson gives us a precise answer: "Man's abject dependence on the past… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
We learn to think of history as something that has already happened, to other people. Our own moment, filled as it is with minutiae… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history. — John Brown Gordon Copy Share Image
History is a big word... History is not the sort of animal you can domesticate. — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
History is not the story of strangers, aliens from another realm; it is the story of us had we been born a little earlier.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
If Christianity had asserted itself in Germany, six million Jews would have lived. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Be nonviolent only with those who are nonviolent to you. And when you can bring me a nonviolent racist, bring me a nonviolent segregationist,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslaved our people here in America, should and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I mean a real police state just to get a token recognition of a law. It take, it took, I think, 15,000 troops and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
