„I know the history, but I refuse to be trapped by it.“

— Barack Obama

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„People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.“
— James Baldwin
„Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away.“
— Arundhati Roy
„As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.“
— Barack Obama
„Hugo is a raven, and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I do not know nearly enough.“
— Cassandra Clare
„I don’t know whether Napoleon did or did not try to get across there and I don’t care. I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.“
— Henry Ford
„Jesus is eternally right. History is replete with the bleached bones of nations that refused to listen to him.“
— Jr.
„The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.“
— Arundhati Roy
„I know how unfashionable it is now to acknowledge in life or history any genius loftier than ourselves.“
— Will Durant
„America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.“
— Barack Obama
„You're going to relegate my history to a month? I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history.“
— Morgan Freeman