Steffan McLees-Gilbert > Steffan's Quotes

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
― Angela Davis

“For, to the great despair of historians, men fail to change their vocabulary every time they change their customs.”
― Marc Bloch

“In a word, a historical phenomenon can never be understood apart from its moment in time. This is true of ever evolutionary stage, our own and all others. As the old Arab proverb has it: 'Men resemble their times more than they do their fathers.”
― Marc Bloch, The Historian's Craft: Reflections on the Nature and Uses of History and the Techniques and Methods of Those Who Write It.

“Diverse pluralism, where all are honoured equally and afforded the same opportunity, where multiple identities are allowed to exist even within one person, where nuance, complexity and contradiction are encouraged”
― Mike Parker, Welsh - Plural: Essays on the Future of Wales

“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something. That there is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien