If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past. — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
One of the problems in the United States is the refusal on the part of our young people to remember or to… — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past. — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
There's no reason in the world why black [people] should not be regarded as an attribute that is not degrading but is positive. There's… — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United… — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world… — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
I went to college on my way to be a lawyer. That's all I wanted to do was go back home and help my… — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
The very essence of the life of the mind is the freedom to inquire, to examine, and to criticize. — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the… — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda. — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
“[The South's] obsession was to maintain a government, an economy, an arrangement of the sexes, a relationship of the races, and a social system… — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
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