Collective memory Quote by Reni Eddo-Lodge Download Open image ““Faced with the collective forgetting, we must strive to remember”” — Reni Eddo-Lodge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Collective memory Discrimination Memory Racism Struggle
“Forgetting used to be a failing, a waste, a sign of senility. Now it takes effort. It may be as important as remembering.” — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“There are things that one keeps on dreaming of forgetting, while others were ought to be remembered, but were kept off.” — Fady Seleem Copy Share Image
“Forget forgetting. We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is… — Peter Rock Copy Share Image
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“To be white is to be human; to be white is universal. I only know this because I am not.” — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“It's clear that equality doesn't quite cut it. Asking for a sliver of disproportionate power is too polite a request. I don't want to… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“The idea of white privilege forces white people who aren’t actively racist to confront their own complicity in its continuing existence. White privilege is… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“If feminism can understand the patriarchy, it's important to question why so many feminists struggle to understand whiteness as a political structure in the… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“The journey towards understanding structural racism still requires people of colour to prioritise white feelings. Even if they can hear you, they’re not really… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“The mess we are living in is a deliberate one. If it was created by people, it can be dismantled by people, and it… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“The journey towards understanding structural racism still requires people of colour to prioritise white feelings.” — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“Some start boycotting halal meat on cruelty grounds, as though there are varying degrees of acceptable animal death they'll withstand for the benefit of… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent.” — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“Demands for equality need to be as complicated as the inequalities they seek to address.” — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“Not displaying anger wasn’t going to stop me being labelled as angry, so I thought: fuck it. I decided to speak my mind. The… — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people.… — Rene Balcer Copy Share Image
In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced… — Tadatoshi Akiba Copy Share Image
“These things happen. And we say to ourselves, “Never again.” And a hundred years pass. And they happen. Again.” — Qntm Copy Share Image
Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind must learn… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places.… — Aldo Rossi Copy Share Image
“If you don't recognize your own crimes, there's no impediment to continuing them. There's a pretty dramatic example of that right at this moment.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.” — George will Copy Share Image
Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed… — Michael Malone Copy Share Image
I say to the [European countries]: Hurry up and apologize to our nation, because if you do not, you will regret it. This is… — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory. — Ralph Davis Copy Share Image
Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way to private… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
The rich and complex history of South Carolina is the history of the African diaspora, and in many ways, I felt acutely the sense… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
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