“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.”– Lord Acton Related Quotes “Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.”– Carter G. Woodson “Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”– Karl Marx “I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.”– Chris Rock