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Lyndon B. Johnson: “We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.”

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Marge Piercy: “Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.”

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Anne Sullivan: “Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.”

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Howard Zinn: “History is important. If you don't know history it's as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything and you have no way of checking up on it.”

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Anna Garlin Spencer: “It is fair to assume that when women in the past have achieved even a second or third place in the ranks of genius they have shown far more native ability than men have needed to reach the same eminence. Not excused from the more general duties that constitute the cement of society, most women of talent have had but one hand free with which to work out their ideal conceptions. ”

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Maya Angelou: “I would encourage us all, African Americans, Asians, Latinos, Whites, Native Americans to study history. I long for the time when all the human history is taught as one history. I am stronger because you are stronger. I am weaker if you are weak. So we are more alike than we are unlike.”

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Melody Beattie: “Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. ”

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Howard Zinn: “I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you you must go to war for this or that reason -- that history is a protective armor against being misled.”

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Howard Zinn: “It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.”

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Howard Zinn: “To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places -- and there are so many -- where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

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Thomas Paine: “The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is, that they do not go far enough into antiquity. They do not go the whole way. They stop in some of the intermediate stages of an hundred or a thousand years, and produce what was then done as a rule for the present day. This is no authority at all. If we travel still further into antiquity, we shall find a directly contrary opinion and practice prevailing; and, if antiquity is to be authority, a thousand such authorities may be produced, successively contradicting each other: but if we proceed on, we shall at last come out right: we shall come to the time when man came from the hand of his maker. What was he then? Man. Man was his high and only title, and a higher cannot be given him.”

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Mohandas K. Gandhi: “A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.”

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Thomas Jefferson: “I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”

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Ken Burns: “I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.”

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Heywood Broun: “Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.”

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Peace Pilgrim: “One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.”

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Aristotle: “Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”

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Plato: “Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”

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Arthur Ashe: “You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.”

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Howard Zinn: “If you don't know history, it is as if you were born yesterday.”

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Howard Zinn: “People like Eugene Debs, Helen Keller, Emma Goldman, Jack London and Upton Sinclair were wonderful writers who joined the movement against war and injustice, against capitalism and corporate power. That was a very exciting period in American history.”

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Unknown: “Rosa sat so Martin could walk, Martin walked so Barack could run, Barack ran so we all can fly.”

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Agathon: “This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.”

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Aldous Huxley: “The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.”

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H. G. Wells: “History is a race between education and catastrophe.”

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W. H. Auden: “The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.”

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Anne Sullivan: “Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.”

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Andre Trocme: “All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence...the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rather they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history.”

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George Bernard Shaw: “We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”

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Robert Fulghum: “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.”

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