Quotes about History

Stories change people. History, real history, helps people understand each other, see each other from the inside out.

everyone has history. Just because we're not always happy with what's true doesn't mean we shouldn't know it. It's how we learn. It's how we do better in the future. Hopefully, anyway.

Secrets ain't a healthy thang, no matter how old they is. Sometimes the oldest secrets is the worst of all.

The darkest hours of history have always been born of the efforts of one people to dehumanize another.

Maybe these are woodpile relatives? People my grandmother doesn't want to acknowledge as part of the family tree? Every clan must have a few of those.

I am transported to the time before the War between the States, a time that is bred into our awareness as Southerners, yet most often lauded as a day of grace and grandeur. Mr. Bass Carter causes me to wonder . . . how different is that history when seen from the fields and the lowly slave cabins?

the past travels with you. It's whether you run from it or learn from it that makes all the difference.

was their job to always hold tight to the past, to tell it to the young'uns.

It's hard to believe that, not so many years ago, orphaned children were little more than chatte

so many of the things we struggle with as human beings are not unique to our generation. There are lessons to be learned from those who've wandered these paths before us.

Chances are, each one of us can relate to that story in some way. We all care about the human element, the part that's timeless. But we also care about those turning points in history, those social mores that we can't believe were accepted just a generation ago. We want to believe we would never have stood for it ourselves, had we been there.

She looked around the room then, and her eyes got misty, and she said we kids oughta remember there was a time when some folks had it a lot harder than others. I couldn't see how things were so different now.