The world must know what happened, and never forget.
Interpretation
It is essential to remember and acknowledge past events to prevent them from recurring.
This quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower emphasizes the importance of collective memory in society, particularly regarding significant historical events. By urging the world to remember what has occurred, he highlights the necessity of learning from history to avoid the same mistakes in the future and to honor the experiences of those affected by such events.
In practice
In a speech commemorating veterans, one might use this quote to underline the significance of remembering historical sacrifices.
If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.
The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of all creeds and persuasions-must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency.
You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.
When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust.
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.
Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison.
Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt.
Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he could not, would not, apologise to the Aboriginal people for 200 years of murder and abuse. The battle against the Turks, he said in Gallipoli, was our history, our tradition. The war against the Aboriginals, he had already said at home, had happened long ago. The battle had made us; the war that won the continent was best forgotten
The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
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