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"You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that."

Arthur Ashe on History

More quotes about History

  • "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

    Confucius on History

  • "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

    Abraham Lincoln on History

  • "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

    Mahatma Gandhi on History

  • "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

    Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

  • "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

    Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Arthur Ashe

  • "The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight."

  • "I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full."

  • "We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men."

  • "You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that."

  • "We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy."

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