“We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.”

— Miguel de Unamuno

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19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher 1864–1936

John Townsend (1952) Canadian clinical psychologist and author

Where Is God (2009, Thomas Nelson publishers)

“If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.”

Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist

Source: 1940s, And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America (1942), p. 234—235; cited in Portraits Of Industry (2004) by Lorie A. Annarella, p. 5

“Listen, Marxist: The organization we try to build is the kind of society our revolution will create. Either we will shed the past - in ourselves as well as in our groups - or there will simply be no future to win.”

Murray Bookchin (1921–2006) American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher

Listen, Marxist!

“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.

“I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.”

Howard Zinn book A People's History of the United States

Source: A People's History of the United States (1980), Ch. 1

“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)

“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.”

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)

“The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.”

Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) 15th Prime Minister of Canada

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

“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.

“We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.”

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