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“My topics are timely. When an event is happening is when I want to be there... I think it is our duty to challenge the status quo.”

Thinking Want Challenges Events Duty Happenings Topics Status Quo Timely

Author:Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

“I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destinies of man.”

Men Writing Believe I Believe Destiny Records Greater Events Movement Duty Supreme Historian Sequence Sweeping

Book:A History of the Crusades: Volume 1, The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

Source: A History of the Crusades: Volume 1, The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem

“Duty is ours and events are God's.”

Book:On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters

Source: On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters

“I'M SYMPATHETIC, because I wasn't there so I don't know exactly what happened. Maybe Darren Wilson acted within his rights and duty as an officer of the law and killed Michael Brown in self defense like any of us would in the circumstance. Now he has to fear the backlash against himself and his loved ones when he was only doing his job. What a horrible thing to endure. OR maybe he provoked Michael and ignited the series of events that led to him eventually murdering the young man to prove a point.”

Source: Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.

“While the scientist, on the one hand, is concerned with giving a faithful description of facts, on the other, he has the equally important task of construing them in relation to some explanatory conjecture. Similarly the historian has a double duty: both of reporting the past as nearly as possible as it passed or was lived through by men at the time (without doctoring up events to fit later developments or some more "enlightened reading" of them); and second, of interpreting their import in the light of a present hypothesis.”

Source: The judgment of history

“Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes.”

Eye Dying Events Duty Creatures Infinite Lays Burden Shoulders Miserable His Eyes Consideration Remove Tempted

Book:The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character

Source: The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”

Mean Doe Country Truth President Support Failing Events Duty Degrees Officials Telling The Truth Patriotism Patriotic Dissent Inefficiency Public Officials Unpatriotic

Book:Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century

Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century