Quotes about History
Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.
- Pope John Paul II
Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.
- Elie Wiesel
Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.
- Henry David Thoreau
The great number of the Jews furnishes us with a sufficient cloud of witnesses that attest the truth of the Bible.
- Joseph Addison
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
- Mark Twain
It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so.
- William Barclay
...oppression is as American as apple pie...
- Audre Lorde
Racism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See, when you believe that racism is a skin problem, you can take three hundred years of slavery, court decisions, marches, and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right.
- Tony Evans
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
- James A. Garfield
Racism can be called our nation's own specific 'original sin.'
- Blase J. Cupich
Too many of our fellow Americans have to struggle each day against the obstacles imposed by racism, history and original sin. These obstacles are real, and they affect the way police departments have acted toward Black Americans.
- Conor Lamb
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
- Livy