“Our history is not our destiny.”– Alan Cohen Related Quotes “May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ‘faith’ is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?”– W. H. Auden “In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There’s so much more to the story.”– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar “It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.”– Hannah Arendt