There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.
Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.
My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.
Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.
Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history.
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.
Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.
But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers.
What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.
The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.