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At some point it is no longer a question of whether we can learn this history but whether we have the collective will to reckon with it.

— Clint Smith How the Word is Passed (2021)

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Memory, for me, is often a home where the furniture has been rearranged one too many times.

To deny the full humanity of others is to deny it within ourselves.

Counting Descent (2017)

Rewatching the Freedom Riders documentary, seeing the face of a young John Lewis, and I'm reminded of how so many of the ppl who spit on, cursed at, & assaulted these riders are ppl who are still alive today. Still alive, still voting, still here. None of this was that long ago.

It’s not a feeling of guilt. It’s a feeling of ‘discovered ignorance'

How the Word is Passed (2021)

I simply cannot imagine having access to that much wealth (a billion dollars is one thousand stacks of a million dollars!) and thinking that using a minuscule percentage of that money to make sure other people have access to food, homes, and education was a bad thing.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce Ulysses (1922)

If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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