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Social History Quotes & Sayings

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Norman Rockwell saved my life. — Jane Allen Petrick

As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements. — Cory Booker

Do try The House by fresh new author, Susannah Mansfield, it's funny, sad and very different, you'll love the characters and the stories. — Susannah Mansfield

The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history. — Simon Schama

Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation. — Sara Sheridan

The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men. — Marc Bloch

Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform. — Lara Giddings

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. — Friedrich Engels

The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice. — Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Young people have been at the forefront of every great social movement in our country's history. — Sherrod Brown

Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over. — John Keay

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive. — Bruce Jackson

As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: Elegance is not worth that price. — John Lewis Gaddis

Ten years later, I will be able to say, "I saw future happen". And, this is the most rewarding part of what I do. — Sharad Vivek Sagar

History is the shank of the social sciences. — C. Wright Mills

If the long arc of history bends toward social justice, it also bends toward environmental justice and ecological sanity. — David Jaber

Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being. — Danah Boyd

Even though it is black, black as Egypt's night, the customer is always right — Andrew Ewing

Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life. — Fred Whitehead

Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history. — Jim Walsh

I have always understood that money made in the patent medicine business is a practical bar to social success. — George Presbury Rowell

I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law. — Connor Jessup

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific. — Jared Diamond

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery. — Todd Gitlin

Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible — Monique Wittig

Spend less time on social media and more time reading and writing. — James Gary Vineyard

Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. — George Macaulay Trevelyan

If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about! — Barbara Ann Mojica

Tell the Truth. Make it Special.

Life's a Beach. And then you Drown.

Good Ideas cost no more than Bad Ones. — Justin Allison

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. — Thomas Merton

At the start of the twenty-first century, the advertising industry is guiding one of history's most massive stealth efforts in social profiling. — Joseph Turow

I just wanted to do something important. — Norman Rockwell

Has any movie captured a moment in social, let alone musical, history with as much acuity and joy as 'A Hard Day's Night'? — Richard Corliss

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible. — Reinhold Niebuhr

I love history because when you strip away the social and political aspects, it's really just a bunch of fun stories. — Duff Goldman

History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose. — J. H. Plumb

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. — Thomas Sowell

We are sitting on top of a vast cultural and historical pyramid of accumulated misconceptions, lies and myths, built one on top of the other. — Bryant McGill

The social and economic impact of innovative American researchers, companies, and workers over the course of U.S. history have been enormous. — Robert Hormats

In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that I created. — Paul Smith

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve. — Denise Mina

Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that. — Paul Watson

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning. — Deepak Chopra

History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements. — Leo Tolstoy

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it. — Evita Peron

Taken all together, it's difficult to escape the verdict that William Wilberforce was simply the greatest social reformer in the history of the world. — Eric Metaxas

What each of us perceives and acts upon as true has much to do with our situation, social, political, cultural, religious, or philosophical. — Elaine Pagels

My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school. — Judy Woodruff

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story
so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change. — Alanis Obomsawin

Those who oppose equality, compassion and social justice have been on the wrong side of history time and time again. — Laurence Overmire

Rapid expansion coupled with social stability is proof of Umar's incredible capabilities as a leader — Firas Alkhateeb

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out. — G. M. Trevelyan