"If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated."

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"If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated."

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"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."

Voltaire, French Writer

History,

"There were in the camp a number of Mexican slaves and these ran forth calling out in spanish and were brained or shot and one of the Delawares emerged from the smoke with a naked infant dangling in each hand and squatted at a ring of midden stones and swung them by the heels each in turn and bashed their heads against the stones so that the brains burst forth through the fontanel in a bloody spew and humans on fire came shrieking forth like berserkers and the riders hacked them down with their enormous knives and a young woman ran up and embraced the bloodied forefeet of Glanton's warhorse."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

History, Violence, War, Death, Suffering

"Being that the historical Jesus was of pure Hebraic descent- lineage of Eber- He was not an Arab or of Arabic descent, therefore He was not dark skinned as most Israeli's are not."

R. Alan Woods, American Author

History, Truth, Observation, Wisdom

"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

History, Men, Women, Opposition

"To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader

History, Truth, Writing, Wisdom

"It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God - who knows all that can be known - seems powerless to change."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

History, Greed, Violence, God

"The king is dead. Long live the queen."

Marie Lu, American Author

History, Tradition, Leadership, Change

"Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the Western past from Athens and Jerusalem to Runnymede and Valley Forge, as well as to Watts and Chicago of August 1968. He may ignore it or deny it, but that does not alter the fact. The past sits back and smiles and knows it owns him anyway."

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

History, Heritage, Identity, Culture

"War without end. Well, what was history without that? And how would having the stars change anything?"

James S.A. Corey, American Author

History, War, Conflict, Stars

"Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race."

Mary McLeod Bethune, American Educator

History, Time, Development, Glory

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"In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent."

Talent, Discrimination

"This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible."

Leadership, Life, Education, Religion

"Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination."

Development, Discrimination

"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."

Inspirational, History, Inspiration, Biography, Teaching

"As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching."

Change, Struggle, Teaching

"The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies."

Thought, Inferiority, Class

"The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers."

Race, Production

"If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own."

Man,

"Let us banish fear."

Fear,

"If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated."

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"History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes."

"Being that the *historical* Jesus was of pure Hebraic descent- lineage of Eber- He was not an Arab or of Arabic descent, therefore He was not dark skinned as most Israeli's are not."

"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."

"To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity."

"It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God - who knows all that can be known - seems powerless to change."

"The king is dead. Long live the queen."

"War without end. Well, what was history without that? And how would having the stars change anything?"

"Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race."

Explore more quotes by Carter G. Woodson

"In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent."

"This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal with such fundamental forces in life as make these things possible."

"Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination."

"Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history."

"As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching."

"The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies."

"The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers."

"If the white man wants to hold on to it, let him do so; but the Negro, so far as he is able, should develop and carry out a program of his own."

"Let us banish fear."

"If a race has no history, if it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated."

"Being that the historical Jesus was of pure Hebraic descent- lineage of Eber- He was not an Arab or of Arabic descent, therefore He was not dark skinned as most Israeli's are not."