What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.’
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Emotions are as real as gravity. Dreams are as powerful as history.
You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.
I wonder why nobody has ever called pre-historic cave paintings Graffiti. Maybe that’s precisely what it was back then.
We create history by our observation, rather than history creating us.
We believe human begins have existed for only a small fraction of cosmic history, because human race has been improving so rapidly in knowledge and technology that if people had been around for millions of years, the human race would be much further along in it's mastery.
So many people have come to me and said, ‘I had no idea there was a genocide.’ There aren’t that many Armenians in this business. We have this spotlight to bring attention to it, so why would we just sit back? I will continue to ask the questions and fight for the genocide to be recognized for what…
The past does not cease to exist simply because we lose our memory of it.
I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.
There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
As President of the United States, I’ve called on our Congress to lift the embargo. (Applause.) It is an outdated burden on the Cuban people. It's a burden on the Americans who want to work and do business or invest here in Cuba. It's time to lift the embargo.
I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas. I have come here to extend the hand of friendship to the Cuban people.
Havana is only 90 miles from Florida, but to get here we had to travel a great distance -- over barriers of history and ideology; barriers of pain and separation. The blue waters beneath Air Force One once carried American battleships to this island -- to liberate, but also to exert control over Cub…
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
This is urgent. Continued failure to deal with our country’s race-based historical traumas dooms us to perpetually re-enact them.
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise
The concept of reverse racism is flawed, if not absolutely ridiculous. Most, if not all of the negative responses from people of color toward white people, are reactions to the hatred, violence, cruelty and brutality that they were shown by white people for centuries. Much of the foundation of the m…
We are never real historians, but always near poets.
The big mistakes were the adoption of the euro without careful thought about how a single currency would work without a unified government; the disastrous framing of the euro crisis as a morality play brought on by irresponsible southerners; the establishment of free labor mobility among culturally…
It seems clear that the European project – the whole effort to promote peace and growing political union through economic integration – is in deep, deep trouble.