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I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

India's history and destiny, India's legacy and future, are a function of coexistence and conciliation, of reform and reconciliation.

It's not about the past; it's about knowing your history so that you can fight in the present. Otherwise, you don't know who the real enemy is, what the real issue is, because it had been covered by many layers of bad information, of lies, and manipulation.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

My dad said, 'Go to college and take whatever you want.' So, I went to the University of Miami. When I got up to the line at registration, I saw that you had to take math and history. I said, 'There's no way I'm taking math and history.' And right next to it was the line for the drama department.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and history, etc.

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job.

I let the American people down.

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

I am aiming high. I want to achieve a lot here, make history here, and make a name for myself at Everton.

Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human history is not on their side - that is why they are reactionaries - because, other things equal, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism.

Leonardo Fibonacci, the great 13th century Italian mathematician (1175-1250) created the 'Fibonacci sequence' to explain behavior in nature mathematically. History has it that the first question he posed was how many rabbits would be created in one year starting with one pair.

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

I have had the greatest wrestling career in the history of pro wrestling.

There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers.

If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.

The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain.

Our landscapes connect us to our history; they are the source of our character as a peopl, as well as our health, our safety, and our prosperity. Natural resources enrich us economically, yes. But they also enrich us aesthetically and recreationally and culturally and spiritually.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

Over the years, a lot of rappers - Lil' Wayne, Ice Cube - have used my name in their songs. I'm a real touchstone of history.

You can't supervise your own history.

Our particular problem in America at this point in history is the widespread loss of the sense of individual significance, a loss which is sensed inwardly as impotence.

The Fort Lauderdale Strikers is a team with history, tradition.

Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.

The issue of equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals has vexed politicians for decades. I have my own cloudy history with the issue, having supported a law in Mississippi that made it illegal for LGBT couples to adopt children. I believed at the time this was a principled position based on my faith.

If I fought like I was looking for a place in history, it would ruin me as a person. I don't think history is worth selling my soul.

Nobody in history has won all the titles I've won and the cruiserweight title. I'd be the only man in history. That's when you die and go to Heaven, and God can look at you and know you did everything with the gifts he gave you.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

The history of the Welsh, the Irish, the Highlanders, is just the same as that of the Gauls, one of internecine feud, no political cohesion, no capacity for merging private interests, forgetting private grudges for a patriotic cause.

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

I did not come to NASA to make history.

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.