Famous quotes containing the words history and/or era:
“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)
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)