To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future. - Daisaku Ikeda

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I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget. — George W. Bush

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History is written by the winners.

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The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. - ERNEST DIMNET

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I'm against genocide. I'm against fascism. I'm willing to fight against them so that, in that sense, I think one can still be committed to justice and committed to peace but recognize the circumstances under which one does have to fight. - Cornel West

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If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. - MICHAEL CRICHTON

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Part of the popularity with Louis Farrakhan has less to do with the content of his message and more to do with the form that he portrays himself - as being a free black person who speaks what is on his mind with boldness and fearlessness. Who is willing to pay the consequences. - Cornel West

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Black people have been working hard for decades. - Cornel West

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The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

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History has shown there are no invincible armies. ― Joseph Stalin

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