Home » Quote » James Baldwin » „People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.“ „People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.“ — James Baldwin Tags:HistoryPeople Related quotes „I know the history, but I refuse to be trapped by it.“ — Barack Obama „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 „Most people never see the trap they are in.“ — Robert T. Kiyosaki „They get entangled in non-essentials and fall into the trap set by cleverer people.“ — Dietrich Bonhoeffer „The March on Washington teaches us that we are not trapped by the mistakes of history; that we are masters of our fate. But it also teaches us that the promise of this nation will only be kept when we work together.“ — Barack Obama „This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.“ — Ernest Hemingway „People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.“ — Chuck Palahniuk „“The main cause of poverty or financial struggle is fear and ignorance, not the economy or the government or the rich. It’s self-inflicted fear and ignorance that keeps people trapped.“ — Robert T. Kiyosaki „History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.“ — James Baldwin