"The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad……" — James W. Loewen

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and… - James W. Loewen

"The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history."

— James W. Loewen

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14 Quotes by James W. Loewen

James W. Loewen has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Textbooks should show that neither morality nor immorality can simply be conferred upon us by history. Merely being part of…
Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.
Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and…
People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created,…
As a result of the sufferings and hard labor they endured, the Indians choose and have chosen suicide. Occasionally a…
Conclusions are not always pleasant.
The idea that we would operate and amputate healthy tissue from a baby, from an unconsenting minor, to supposedly prevent…
Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.
Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks…
It is always useful to think badly about people one has exploited or plans to exploit... No one likes to…
In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi -…

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More Antidote Quotes

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Action is the antidote to despair. — Joan Baez
Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax. — Mario Batali
What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here… — Maya Angelou
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities… — Alan Barth
The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals. — Brian Tracy
The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is… — Jerry Bridges
There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every… — Garson Kanin
Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair. — Dean Koontz
A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful… — Julie Andrews
There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire - poison and antidote. — Bertrand Russell
The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of… — Dalai Lama
A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is. — Phyllis Bottome

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