First step Quote by Chicago Commission on Race Relations

“Our Negro problem, therefore, is not of the Negro's making. No group in our population is less responsible for its existence. But every group…

— Isabel Wilkerson

“History belongs to the past, but understanding it is the duty of the present”

— Shashi Tharoor

“Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the…

— George Orwell

“The past is useful only insofar as it justifies the present; the present is not of value in itself or autonomous, but subject to…

— Eli Lederhendler

“In the context of the Negro problem neither whites nor blacks, for excellent reasons of their own, have the faintest desire to look back;…

— James Baldwin

“The paradox—and a fearful paradox it is—is that the American Negro can have no future anywhere, on any continent, as long as he is…

— James Baldwin

“[The past] has a way of hanging around, demanding we understand it and weave it into ourselves so that we can go on.”

— Margaret Coel

The past assumes the nature of the present.

— Oliver Stone

“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The…

— Will Durant

“entering the past is a precarious business, since the past strives but always half-fails to make us who we are.”

— Richard Ford

“History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past”

— Hilary Mantel

“Why are we learning about the past, when this is History?”

— Galinda Glinda