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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

“Nathan Bedford Forrest ... used his horsemen as a modern general would use motorized infantry. He liked horses because he liked fast movement, and his mounted men could get from here to there much faster than any infantry could; but when they reached the field they usually tied their horses to trees and fought on foot, and they were as good as the very best infantry. Not for nothing did Forrest say the essence of strategy was to git thar fust with the most men.”

Men War Use Used History Tree Feet Modern Movement Fields Essence Horse Strategy Faster Civil War Tied American Civil War Horsemen Infantry

Book:American Heritage History of the Civil War

Source: American Heritage History of the Civil War

“Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by human action, and every great movement of history comes to a point of choosing.”

Humans Sometimes Seems Action History Movement Determined Wide Destination Shore Arcs Human Actions

Author:George W. Bush

“From the theft of confidential cables to 21st century protest movements, to development breakthroughs that have the potential to change millions of lives, we are all in uncharted territory.”

History Millions Century Movement Development Protest Territory 21st Century Breakthrough Cables Theft Uncharted Confidential Uncharted Territory Protest Movements

Author:Hillary Clinton

“[Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.”

“The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.”

Writing Wells May Courses History Movement Mouthpiece

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.”

Art Philosophy Wisdom Change History Journey Conditions Movement Civilization Harbors Voyages

Author:Arnold J. Toynbee

“Today social justice represents one of the most serious challenges to the conscience of the world. The abyss between those who are within the world 'order' and those who are excluded is widening day by day. The use of leading-edge technologies has made it possible to accumulate wealth in a way that is fantastic but perverse because it is unjustly distributed. Twenty-percent of humankind control eighty percent of all means of life. That fact creates a dangerous imbalance in the movement of history.”

Source: The Prayer of Saint Francis: A Message of Peace for the World Today

“The repeated claim before the 'seizure of power' - that the NSDAP, as a national social-revolutionary movement, and not simply another political party... would create new bonds of unity through its elimination and transcending of the party system, was highly attractive and conveyed much of Nazism's dynamic appeal.”

Political Social Party History Movement Claims Unity Appeals Revolutionary Attractive Political Parties Nazism Elimination Nazi Germany Transcending Seizures

Book:THE

Source: THE

“Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, "to be free from freedom."”

Ifs Men Self Young Individual Responsibility History Talent Movement Mass Burden Nazi Nazism Ardent Nazi Germany Freedom To Choose Individual Responsibility

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.”

Real Form History Movement Theater Theatre Real Life Setting Mediums Settings Artificial Kindred Artifice

Book:The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

Source: The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings