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We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

— Angela Davis

“Most humans suffer from amnesia.”

— Bert McCoy

Memory in America suffers amnesia.

— Meridel Le Sueur

“Aura is convinced that the entire country has succumbed to a collective amnesia. This is what happened in a society, where no one is…

— Cristina Garcia

“Personal memory shapes and sustains the “collective memory” that underpins culture.”

— Nicholas Carr

“Sometimes we all forget that the world itself is paradise, and there has been much of late to enourage that amnesia. (Microserfs, p 366)”

— Douglas Coupland

“A world without memory is a world of the present. The past exists only in books, in documents...A spinster sees the face of the…

— Alan Lightman

“Memory is a means of possession, but eventually, the greatest grace is found in letting go. _Population: 485_, p 178.”

— Michael Perry

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

— Elie Wiesel

“If we forget the past, individually or as a culture, we lose knowledge that has already been gained, and we lose valuable tools by…

— S. Joel Garver

“Faced with the collective forgetting, we must strive to remember”

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

— Henry Giroux