therestishistory

Hi,

I'm writing my history professor a thank you card.
I want to include a quote that historians would like..

Can someone help me out?

Thank you!!

tjadams

Depends. What is his/her field of historical study?
Does he/she have a favorite historical figure?
Make it more personal rather than just sticking
in some random quote.

therestishistory

He teaches race & history relations in the US.
He is in the African-Amerrican Studies department.

I'm not sure who is favorite historic figure is I wish I had asked!

therestishistory

How do these sound?

Both by MLK:

"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." —Dec. 10, 1964, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." —April 16, 1963, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail.

tjadams

Maybe a Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DeBois, Langston Hughes
or Booker T. Washington quote.

therestishistory

What about this quote by F. Douglass since it's for a professor?

“Without education he lives within the narrow, dark and grimy walls of ignorance. … Education, on the other hand, means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free. To deny education to any people is one of the greatest crimes against human nature. It is easy to deny them the means of freedom and the rightful pursuit of happiness and to defeat the very end of their being.”
— Blessings of Liberty and Education, Manassas, Va., 1894

therestishistory

Thanks for the help Tjadams!

I went with an abridged version of that F. Douglass quote!