A project of the Rev. James B. Simpson Fellowship at American University’s School of Communication

Contemporary Quotations

  • Home
  • Quotes
  • Search by Date
  • Search by Source
Submit A Quote
  • Home
  • History
  • Archive from category "History"

Category: History

"Ladies and gentlemen, friends, Americans, in your great history, you have pages that would allow you to understand Ukrainians, understand us now when we need you, right now. Remember Pearl Harbor, terrible morning of Dec. 7, 1941, when your sky was black from the planes attacking you. Just remember it. Remember September the 11th, a terrible day in 2001 when evil tried to turn your cities, independent territories, in battlefields, when innocent people were attacked, attacked from air, yes. Just like no one else expected it, you could not stop it." President Zelensky addressing Congress expressing the need for more aid to Ukraine amidst attacks by Russia.

03/16/2022

Volodymyr Zelensky, New York Times
Read more
  • Published in History, Leadership
No Comments

"All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army play a vital role. Don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.”



General George S. Patton, Lighthouse Blog
Read more
  • Published in History, Leadership, Military & Armed Forces
No Comments

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once, but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.



Michelle Obama, Speech at Regina Mundi Church in South Africa
Read more
  • Published in History, International Affairs, Uncertainty
No Comments

Since the day I was born, I have celebrated Constitution Day. That’s because the 39 delegates signed the U.S. Constitution on September 17, which is exactly 146 years before I was born.

September 17, 2019

Chuck Grassley , Grassley.Senate.Gov
Read more
  • Published in Congress & Legislation, Constitution, History
No Comments

Silencing women silences justice.

Dec 06, 2017

DaShanne Stokes,
& MujeristaEqual rightsFeminismGenderHistorySex & SexualityWomanism
Read more
  • Published in & Mujerista, Equal rights, Feminism, Gender, History, Sex & Sexuality, Womanism
No Comments

I know they’re in Maryland right now. But a majority of the season ticket holders are Virginians, all the players live in Virginia, we have all of your [practice] facilities. . . . We’re in very serious negotiations, as I assume other jurisdictions are. Listen, we would love to have them.

Aug 05, 2016

Terry McAuliffe, The Washington Post
CommunityGenerationsHistorySports & Leisure
Read more
  • Published in Community, Generations, History, Sports & Leisure
No Comments

Elie Wiesel, of blessed memory, embodied the determination of the human spirit to overcome the darkest of evils, and survive against all the odds.

Jul 02, 2016

Benjamin Netanyahu, NPR
Arts & LiteratureHistoryLeadershipPressreligionWisdom
Read more
  • Published in Arts & Literature, History, Leadership, Press, religion, Wisdom
No Comments

You’re damn right Hollywood is racist. Hollywood is sorority racist. It’s like, ‘We like you, Rhonda, but you’re not a Kappa.’

Feb 28, 2016

Chris Rock, Academy Awards
Ambition & FameDanceEqual rightsEthicsHistoryMusic & FilmPop-CulturePower & PrivilegeRace & EthnicityRadio & television
Read more
  • Published in Ambition & Fame, Dance, Equal rights, Ethics, History, Music & Film, Pop-Culture, Power & Privilege, Race & Ethnicity, Radio & television
No Comments

We don't need the empire to give us anything.

Mar 28, 2016

Fidel Castro, USA Today
DiplomacyForeign LeadersForeign PolicyHistoryInvestments
Read more
  • Published in Diplomacy, Foreign Leaders, Foreign Policy, History, Investments
No Comments

The court looks the other way as yet another federal district judge casts aside state laws without making any effort to preserve the status quo pending the court’s resolution of a constitutional question it left open in United States v. Windsor…This acquiescence may well be seen as a signal of the court’s intended resolution of that question.

Feb 09, 2015

Clarence Thomas, Dissent accompanying the Supreme Court majority decision not to halt gay marriages in Alabama after a lower court ruling
BisexualConstitutionCourts & Supreme CourtGayHistoryIdeologyJusticeLesbianPolicyPoliticsQueerRegulationsRelationships & MarriageTransgender
Read more
  • Published in Bisexual, Constitution, Courts & Supreme Court, Gay, History, Ideology, Justice, Lesbian, Policy, Politics, Queer, Regulations, Relationships & Marriage, Transgender
No Comments
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4

Categories

  • & Mujerista
  • Ambition & Fame
  • Anti-Government
  • Arab Spring
  • Architecture
  • Arts & Literature
  • Bipartisanship & Compromise
  • Bisexual
  • Budget
  • Capitalism
  • Civil Disobedience
  • Civility
  • Class
  • Collective Bargaining
  • Comedy
  • Communication & Rhetoric
  • Community
  • Congress & Legislation
  • Constitution
  • Consumerism
  • Corporate Responsibility
  • Courgage
  • Courts & Supreme Court
  • Dance
  • Death & Dying
  • Death Penalty
  • Debt & Deficit
  • Decision Making
  • Defense & Homeland Security
  • Democracy
  • Diplomacy
  • Disability
  • Drugs & Medicine
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Elections & Campaigning
  • Energy
  • Environment & Climate Change
  • Equal rights
  • Ethics
  • Evolution
  • Failure
  • Family
  • Farming
  • Fashion
  • fear
  • Feminism
  • Food
  • Food and Drink
  • Food Stamps
  • Foreign Leaders
  • Foreign Policy
  • Founding Fathers
  • Free market
  • Free Speech
  • Freedom & Liberty
  • Gay
  • Gender
  • Generations
  • gun control
  • Health
  • History
  • Human Nature
  • Human RIghts
  • Identity
  • Ideology
  • IMF & World Bank
  • Immigration
  • Individuality
  • Innovation
  • International Affairs
  • Investments
  • Justice
  • Leadership
  • Lesbian
  • MediCare & MedicAid
  • Mental Health
  • Military & Armed Forces
  • Money
  • Music & Film
  • Nature
  • Pandemic
  • Partisanship
  • poetry
  • Policy
  • Political Aspirations
  • Political Parties
  • Political Responsibilities
  • Politics
  • Pop-Culture
  • Poverty
  • Power & Privilege
  • Presidency
  • Press
  • Privacy
  • Property
  • Protesting
  • Public Opinion & Polls
  • Queer
  • Race & Ethnicity
  • Radio & television
  • Reality
  • Redistricting & Gerrymandering
  • Regulations
  • Relationships & Marriage
  • religion
  • Reproductive Rights
  • Science
  • Science & Technology
  • Second Amendment & Gun Control
  • Separation of Church and State
  • Sex & Sexuality
  • Slavery & Human Trafficking
  • Social And Cultural
  • Social Media
  • Social Safety net
  • Social Security
  • Socialism
  • Space
  • Sports & Leisure
  • Strategy
  • Success
  • Supreme Court
  • Taxes
  • Tea Party
  • Technology
  • Terrorism
  • Third Parties
  • Trade
  • Transgender
  • truth
  • Uncategorized
  • Uncertainty
  • United Nation
  • Unity
  • Violence
  • Voting
  • Wall Street
  • War & Peace
  • Wisdom
  • Womanism
  • Work
  • Home
  • Quotes
  • Search by Date
  • Search by Source
Contemporary Quotations

© 2018, Rev. James B. Simpson Fellowship at American University’s School of Communication

TOP