Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Black people dont have an accurate idea of their history, which ha

Black people dont have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history. – Pieter Geyl, Debates With Historians

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History is the synthesis of all social sciences turned towards the past. – Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

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History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided. – Konrad Adenauer

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One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, – to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to collect sagas and heap cairns. This instinct as to the enduring value of the past is, one might say, the very basis of civilization. – John Jay Chapman, Memories and Milestones

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