Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, middle and/or ages:
“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.”
—Richard M. Nixon (b. 1913)
“Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)
“Nothing ages a woman like living in the country.”
—Colette [Sidonie Gabrielle Colette] (1873–1954)