“If we are generous enough, we can stretch our souls everywhere and everywhen else. If we succeed in doing so, we shall discover that our present embraces the past and the future and that the whole world is our province.”
Preface.
A History of Science Vol.2 Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C. (1959)
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Rufus M. Jones (1863–1948) American writer
Source: Christian Mystics (1999 - 2014), p. 8
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Morris West (1916–1999) Australian writer
Marius Melville in Ch. 17
Cassidy (1986)
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On Eagle's Wings, 1977, p. 159
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“Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future.”
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (28 June 1964), as quoted in By Any Means Necessary (1970)
By any means necessary: speeches, interviews, and a letter (1970)
Context: Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.
