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as Caribbean people we are not going to forget our history — we don't just want to hear an apology, we want reparation!

— David Lammy

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This tweet from the BBC is crass and unnecessary. Do we really need silly innuendo about the race of the next Pope?

You're going to struggle to find any politician in the Western world who hasn't had things to say in response to Donald Trump.

I am here, because you were there. We are here, because you were there.

"We cannot be blown off course by an imperialist fascist" (Talking about Vladimir Putin)

The world does not need any more white saviours.
As I’ve said before, this just perpetuates tired and unhelpful stereotypes. Let’s instead promote voices from across the continent of Africa and have serious debate.

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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!

Thomas Jefferson

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