Important Quote by John Hope Franklin
“One of the problems in the United States is the refusal on the part of our young people to remember or to want to remember, or to recognize the experiences of the past as being relevant, germane, important to the present and to the future. They simply don't want anything that's painful. They want to live in a painless society where everything is pleasant, and everything is joyful.”
![“There's no reason in the world why black [people] should not be regarded as an attribute that is not degrading but is positive. There's no reason in the world why any person should think that white is degrading.” quote by John Hope Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e49/john-hope-franklin-31513_attributes_there-s-no-reason-in-the-world-why-black_639831.jpg)
![“[The South's] obsession was to maintain a government, an economy, an arrangement of the sexes, a relationship of the races, and a social system that had never existed...except in the fertile imagination of those who would not confront either the reality that existed or the change that would bring…” quote by John Hope Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f70/john-hope-franklin-31513_change_the-south-s-obsession-was-to-maintain-a_2112240.jpg)
