There is nothing more dangerous than history used as a defense, or history used for preaching; history used as a tool is no longer history.- Marcel Trudel
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There is nothing more dangerous than history used as a defense, or history used for preaching; history used as a tool is no longer history. - Marcel Trudel
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. - Dick Gregory
There have been periods of history in which episodes of terrible violence occurred but for which the word violence was never used.... Violence is shrouded in justifying myths that lend it moral legitimacy, and these myths for the most part kept people from recognizing the violence for what it was. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed. - Gil Bailie
People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them. - James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
History is past politics, and politics present history. - John Robert Seeley, The Growth of British Policy
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. - Morgan Freeman
The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas. - Elbert Hubbard
History is herstory too. - Author Unknown