Even Prejudices Quotes by John Hope Franklin

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John Hope Franklin has 10 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• If the house is to be set in order,...
• If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past
• One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.
• The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.
• We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell…
• We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to…
• It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.
• We know all too little about the factors that affect the attitudes of the peoples of the world toward one another. It…
• The very essence of the life of the mind is the freedom to inquire, to examine, and to criticize.

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