Statement of 1970, as quoted in profile at the Canadian Museum of Civilizations http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/biography/biographi270e.shtml, also quoted in York University: The Way Must Be Tried (2008) by Michiel Horn, p. 4
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876–1944) Italian poet and editor, founder of the Futurist movement
To the conception of the imperishable, the immortal, we oppose, in art, that of becoming, the perishable, the transitory, and the ephemeral.
We Abjure Our Symbolist Masters..., from War, the World's Only Hygiene (1911-1915)
1910's
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
Address at Oyster Bay, New York (27 July 1904) http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/images/research/txtspeeches/104.txt, in response to the committee appointed to notify him of his nomination for the Presidency. <br class="br">1900s
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1963, Speech at Amherst College
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
“We are proud of our past and our present and we face the future with unflagging determination.”
Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum (1949) Emirati politician
Quotes on Life and its challenges, http://www.sheikhmohammed.co.ae/vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=ab878960a5a11310VgnVCM1000004d64a8c0RCRD&appInstanceName=default, sheikhmohammed.ae.
“We never escape our past. It is mirrored in our present. It repeats itself in our future.”
Morris West (1916–1999) Australian writer
Marius Melville in Ch. 17
Cassidy (1986)
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 (1970)
“We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.”
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
“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.
