My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
Julie Andrews
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... →
Maya Angelou
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... →
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.
I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have... →
Kofi Annan
Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity... →
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
Jean Anouilh