Quotes about History
the history of Protestantism is very great. It presents like no other of Luther's writings the central thought of Christianity, the justification of the sinner for the sake of Christ's merits alone.
- Martin Luther
Simeon was the ancestor of Judas Iscariot.
- Martin Luther
Through envy, greed, and councilors young, Jerusalem, Troy, and Rome were hung.
- Martin Luther
and whatever good Germany has is not the result of her own power, virtue, or wisdom, but has been received from those rejected, despised, and accursed people who are called Christians
- Martin Luther
The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued that self-defeating path of hate. Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people - a black people - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization." This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS.
- Mahatma Gandhi
When a man marries a widow his jealousies revert to the past: no man is as good as his wife says her first husband was
- Samuel Johnson
Your ancestors are a ladder; upon them climb.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Communication of this message required a coordinated effort. Each person's willingness to talk to Woodward was cross-checked against the willingness of several others to talk to him. This was part of Woodward's standard method of establishing a critical mass of inside sources: he created a kind of in-group, and this also suggested that if you failed to participate, you would not only lose your opportunity to be part of the in-group but lose your place in history
- Michael Wolff
David Halberstam's The Best and the Brightest.
- Michael Wolff
The Best and the Brightest. (One of the
- Michael Wolff