I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.
When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we are more surely imprisoned than any prisoner behind concrete walls and iron bars.
I'm a historian in my own mind.
I think my whole life has been shaped by my childhood incarceration in America's concentration camps.
In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.
History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.
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