Jerusalem/history

Famous quotes containing the words jerusalem and/or history:

“Comfort, comfort ye my people, speak ye peace, thus saith our God;
comfort those who sit in darkness mourning ‘neath their sorrows’ load.
Speak ye to Jerusalem of the peace that waits for them;
tell her that her sins I cover, and her warfare now is over.”
—Johann G. Olearius (1611–1684)

“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)