"Those who don't remember the past are condemned……" — James W. Loewen

"Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade."

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

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A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing. — William Barclay
Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form… — John Berger
Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind… — Cate Blanchett
Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped… — Tony Campolo
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would… — Albert Camus
Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that… — Jimmy Carter
As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of… — Hillary Clinton
Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped… — Nikola Tesla
Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this… — James Keller
(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.)… — Carl Sagan
Nothing that results in human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. Those that are enlightened before the others are condemned… — Christopher Columbus
It was this same Jesus, the Christ who, among many other remarkable things, said and repeated something which, proceeding from… — Wilbur Smith

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