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History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.

We have to be willing to give up all the injustices of the past that did exist - and that do exist right now. When we become interested in liberation, we then become interested in that which transcends time.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.

The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.