Famous quotes by Historians

"Human improvement is from within outward"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"No person is ever good for much that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children"

James Anthony Froude, Historian

"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"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"The mere imparting of information is not education"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong enough to get out of the ghetto"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"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"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

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

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"Let us banish fear!"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"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"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"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"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"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"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"I am a radical!"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"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"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli"

Howard Zinn, Historian

"We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children"

Howard Zinn, Historian

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism"

Howard Zinn, Historian

"One certain effect of war is to diminish freedom of expression"

Howard Zinn, Historian

"If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves"

Howard Zinn, Historian

"Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane"

Howard Zinn, Historian

"An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome"

William Manchester, Historian

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