To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act. And if we do act, in however small a way, we dont have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. Howard Zinn Related Quotes: Compassion Quotes, Future Quotes, History Quotes, Hope Quotes, Howard Zinn Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, always. Mohandas K. Gandhi Related Quotes: Democracy Quotes, Despair Quotes, Failure Quotes, History Quotes, Love Quotes, Mohandas K. Gandhi Quotes, Truth Quotes The same political parties which now agitate the U.S. have existed thro all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals. Thomas Jefferson Related Quotes: Conservatives Quotes, Democracy Quotes, History Quotes, Liberals Quotes, Politics Quotes, Thomas Jefferson Quotes We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. Lyndon B. Johnson Related Quotes: History Quotes, Learning Quotes, Life Quotes Never doubt that you can change history. You already have. Marge Piercy Related Quotes: Change/Growth Quotes, History Quotes, Marge Piercy Quotes If you have lived, take thankfully the past. John Dryden Related Quotes: Gratitude Quotes, History Quotes, Life Quotes Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free. Anne Sullivan Related Quotes: Anne Sullivan Quotes, Challenge Quotes, Change/Growth Quotes, Freedom Quotes, History Quotes, Humanity Quotes History is important. If you dont know history its as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything and you have no way of checking up on it. Howard Zinn Related Quotes: History Quotes, Howard Zinn Quotes It is fair to assume that when women in the past have achieved even a second or third place in the ranks of genius they have shown far more native ability than men have needed to reach the same eminence. Not excused from the more general duties that constitute the cement of society, most women of talent have had but one hand free with which to work out their ideal conceptions. Anna Garlin Spencer Related Quotes: Anna Garlin Spencer Quotes, History Quotes, Women Quotes I would encourage us all, African Americans, Asians, Latinos, Whites, Native Americans to study history. I long for the time when all the human history is taught as one history. I am stronger because you are stronger. I am weaker if you are weak. So we are more alike than we are unlike. Maya Angelou Related Quotes: America Quotes, Diversity Quotes, History Quotes, Maya Angelou Quotes, Strength Quotes, Unity Quotes, Weakness Quotes Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Melody Beattie Related Quotes: Gratitude Quotes, History Quotes, Melody Beattie Quotes, Memory Quotes, Peace Quotes, Vision Quotes I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you you must go to war for this or that reason -- that history is a protective armor against being misled. Howard Zinn Related Quotes: Government Quotes, History Quotes, Howard Zinn Quotes, War Quotes It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status. Howard Zinn Related Quotes: History Quotes, Howard Zinn Quotes, Women Quotes To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places -- and there are so many -- where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we dont have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. Howard Zinn Related Quotes: Action Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Courage Quotes, Future Quotes, History Quotes, Howard Zinn Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is, that they do not go far enough into antiquity. They do not go the whole way. They stop in some of the intermediate stages of an hundred or a thousand years, and produce what was then done as a rule for the present day. This is no authority at all. If we travel still further into antiquity, we shall find a directly contrary opinion and practice prevailing; and, if antiquity is to be authority, a thousand such authorities may be produced, successively contradicting each other: but if we proceed on, we shall at last come out right: we shall come to the time when man came from the hand of his maker. What was he then? Man. Man was his high and only title, and a higher cannot be given him. Thomas Paine Related Quotes: History Quotes, Human Rights Quotes, Thomas Paine Quotes A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. Mohandas K. Gandhi Related Quotes: Action Quotes, Faith Quotes, History Quotes, Mohandas K. Gandhi Quotes I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past. Thomas Jefferson Related Quotes: Dreams Quotes, Future Quotes, History Quotes, Thomas Jefferson Quotes I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War. Ken Burns Related Quotes: America Quotes, History Quotes, War Quotes Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else. Heywood Broun Related Quotes: Heywood Broun Quotes, History Quotes, Mistakes Quotes One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history. Peace Pilgrim Related Quotes: History Quotes, News Quotes, Peace Quotes, Peace Pilgrim Quotes
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