Historical Context Quotes

"Men make their own history but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances but under circumstances existing already given and transmitted from the past" "You know all men and women are created equal. End of quote. We’ve never lived up to it. Jefferson never lived up to it, he held slaves. Women were excluded" "I grew up in a segregated America; I know what it feels like to be held down." "The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries." "I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks." "Nowhere so busy a man as he there n'as" "A deeper understanding of consciousness demands a historical and evolutionary context." "Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling." "Every age has its own blindness." "Not all victims are innocent. Not all victims are Jews." "The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay" "Families are always rising and falling in America."