History quotes from Men and then Women.
“We've got to teach history based not
on what's in fashion but what's important. If we forget what we did, we won't
know who we are. I'm warning of an eradication of the American memory that
could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit." --
Ronald Reagan 40th US President His farewell address in January 1989
"Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times
create weak men. And, weak men create hard times." G. Michael Hopf in "Those Who Remain". Reflecting the
cyclical nature of history.
“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted,
the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the
voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to
triumph” – Haile Selassie
'We learn from history that we don’t
learn from history!" Desmond Tutu
“The only thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn from
history.” Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
“What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have
never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from
it.” Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
"Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it; but those who have
studied history are nevertheless doomed to stand by while history is repeated
anyway." -- anonymous
“The history of civilization is largely the history of weapons”. George
Orwell.
"History teaches us that men and
nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." - Abba Eban
"The study of history is a
powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance." Paul
Johnson
“[O]ne of the most refined (and rare) certainties of liberalism is that
historical determinism does not exist. History
has not been written so as to negate any further appeal. History is the work of
men, and just as men can act rightly with measures that push history in the
direction of progress and civilization, they can also err, and by
conviction, apathy, or cowardice,
allow history to slide into anarchy, impoverishment, obscurantism, and
barbarism. The culture of democracy can gain new ground and
consolidate the advances it has achieved. Or, it can watch its dominions shrink
into nothingness, like Balzac's ‘peau de chagrin’. The future depends on us--on our ideas, our votes, and the decisions of
those we put in power. Mario Vargas Llosa, Liberalism in the New Millennium [2000]
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work
to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be
written history of this generation.” Robert
F Kennedy’s 1966 “Ripple of Hope” speech.
RFK
History quotes from Men and then Women.
“We've got to teach history based not
on what's in fashion but what's important. If we forget what we did, we won't
know who we are. I'm warning of an eradication of the American memory that
could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit." --
Ronald Reagan 40th US President His farewell address in January 1989
"Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times
create weak men. And, weak men create hard times." G. Michael Hopf in "Those Who Remain". Reflecting the
cyclical nature of history.
'We learn from history that we don’t
learn from history!" Desmond Tutu
“The only thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn from
history.” Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
“What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have
never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from
it.” Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
"Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it; but those who have
studied history are nevertheless doomed to stand by while history is repeated
anyway." -- anonymous
“The history of civilization is largely the history of weapons”. George
Orwell.
"History teaches us that men and
nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." - Abba Eban
"The study of history is a
powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance." Paul
Johnson
“[O]ne of the most refined (and rare) certainties of liberalism is that
historical determinism does not exist. History
has not been written so as to negate any further appeal. History is the work of
men, and just as men can act rightly with measures that push history in the
direction of progress and civilization, they can also err, and by
conviction, apathy, or cowardice,
allow history to slide into anarchy, impoverishment, obscurantism, and
barbarism. The culture of democracy can gain new ground and
consolidate the advances it has achieved. Or, it can watch its dominions shrink
into nothingness, like Balzac's ‘peau de chagrin’. The future depends on us--on our ideas, our votes, and the decisions of
those we put in power. Mario Vargas Llosa, Liberalism in the New Millennium [2000]
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work
to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be
written history of this generation.” Robert
F Kennedy’s 1966 “Ripple of Hope” speech.
RFK
BELOW
are Women’s quotes regarding history
Barbara
Tuchman (historian, The March of Folly):
“To a historian, hindsight is not merely clearer than
perception-in-the-moment but also unfair to those who actually lived through
the moment.”
“The persistence of error is the rule in human history.”
Maya Angelou (poet, civil rights
activist): “History, despite its
wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived
again.”
Margaret MacMillan (historian,
The Uses and Abuses of History): “History is not a cookbook offering pretested
recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims.”
Gerda Lerner (pioneering feminist
historian): “When I discovered the existence of women’s history, I discovered
my own history. That changed my life.”
“The system perpetuates itself by teaching us to forget history. That
forgetting is a form of power.”
On
Power, Memory, and Truth
Arundhati Roy (writer,
activist): “There’s really no such thing
as the ‘voiceless.’ There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably
unheard.”
Simone de Beauvoir (philosopher,
feminist): “The past is an anchor, not a sail.”
Gloria Jean Watkins (September
25, 1952 – December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks (author, cultural
critic): “Life-transforming ideas have
always come to me through books. That’s why I believe reading, and especially
reading history, is a form of resistance.”
On
Gender, Erasure, and Historical Justice
Roxane Gay (author, essayist): “The
problem is not that history is written by the victors. It’s that it’s usually
written by the same kind of victors—white, male, and privileged.”
Mary Beard (classicist,
historian): “You cannot easily fit women
into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the
structure.”
Audre Lorde (writer, civil rights
activist): “Your silence will not
protect you.”
In my opinion - here is the best for last!!!
“It takes a female to have a baby,
It takes a woman to raise a child,
It takes a mother to raise them correctly,
It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world.”
― Shannon
L. Alder
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