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“The history of a movement, the history of a nation, the history of a race is the guide-post of that movement's destiny, that nation's destiny, that race's destiny.”

Nations Race Destiny History Movement Guides African American Posts American History

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.”

Humans Made Purpose Strong Sex Women Destiny History Modern Subjects Effects Century Including Despite Human Life Dogma Assertion Nineteenth Century Strong Will Women In History

Author:Mary Ritter Beard

“We must ever mandate the principle that the people of this continent alone have the right to decide their own destiny.”

People Principles Destiny History Continents Mandates

Author:James K. Polk

“The peace we seek to win is not victory over any other people, but the peace that comes "with healing in its wings;" with compassion for those who have suffered; with understanding for those who have opposed us; with the opportunity for all the peoples of this Earth to choose their own destiny.”

People Earth Opportunity Winning Understanding Healing Compassion Destiny History Victory Wings

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1969

“I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.”

Ifs Thinking Running Romance Force Leadership Situation Leader Steps Destiny History

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”

“The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.”

Action Energy Business Destiny History Conditions Health Depends Increase Chiefs Fulfillment Faculty American Dream Organisms Vitality Vigor

Author:Colin Powell

“We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.”

People Made Culture Language Destiny History Fate South Tied Our Destiny Tied Up

Author:Mangosuthu Buthelezi

“Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.”

Way Giving Political Politics President Change Emotion Destiny History Masters Victim Blind Presidential Resolve Suspicion Us President Us Presidential Giving Way

Author:John F. Kennedy

“All history is an attempt to find pattern and meaning in a section of human experience, and every historian worthy of the name raises questions about man's ultimate destiny and the meaning of all history to which, as history, he can provide no answers. The answers belong to the realm of theology.”

Men Humans Names Answers Destiny History Ultimate Raises Patterns Worthy Theology Realms Historian Sections Human Experience Raises Questions

Author:G. B. Caird

“The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.”

Destiny History Remains Germany Nazism Nazi Germany

Author:Ernst Rohm