History Quotes

When I reflect on the issues that black Hollywood has had with the lack of representation at the Oscars, I realized that we have a responsibility to tell stories that are meaningful for our history.

Usher
The George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin affair is one of the most important and clarifying moments in American history.

Mike Gallagher

It is important to keep in mind that to learn a language is not simply to learn a linguistic means of communication. It is also to learn the way of thinking and feeling of a people who speak and write a language which is different from ours. It is to learn the history and culture underlying their thoughts and emotions and so to learn to empathize with them.

Benedict Anderson
- Language
- Learn
- Emotions
How significant is Aristotle? Well, I wouldn’t want to exaggerate, so let me put it this way: Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders of modern philosophy did, was the single greatest mistake ever made in the entire history of Western thought.

Edward Feser
I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

Dave Grohl Nirvana
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten.

Martin Luther
- American
- Ugly
- Forgotten
Ideas shape the course of history.

John Maynard Keynes
- History
The moment you make a photograph you consign whatever you photograph to the past as that specific moment no longer exists, it is history. The photography that I practice takes place in a specific time and place, depicting real moments in people’s lives. In some ways I think of myself as a historian, but not of the word. History is most often written from a distance, and rarely from the viewpoint of those who endured it.

Chris Killip
- Moment
- Make
- Photograph