history Quotes

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.