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Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of the United…
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Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.
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Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.
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Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from…
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People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions…
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As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a hundred have…
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Conclusions are not always pleasant.
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The idea that we would operate and amputate healthy tissue from a baby, from an unconsenting minor, to supposedly prevent some hypothetical…
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Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.
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Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy…
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It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to think of…
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In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither…
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As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did…
— Margaret Atwood
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Remembering the past gives power to the present.
— Unknown Author
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One has to live in the present. Whatever is past is gone beyond recall; whatever is future remains beyond one's reach, until…
— S. N. Goenka
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
— George Santayana
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In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having…
— Tadatoshi Akiba
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Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.
— Luke the Evangelist
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The Warrior remembers the past.
— Paulo Coelho
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Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Many pundits today are in the habit of misquoting Santayana's epigram, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.…
— David Hackett Fischer
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Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the…
— Robert Smithson
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Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.
— James W. Loewen
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Those who remember the past tend to get the story really screwed up.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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