If history is to be creative, to anticipate a possible future without denying the past, it should, I believe, emphasize new possibilities by disclosin...
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History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there in a position of...
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Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.
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Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?
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I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or anyone telling a story) was forced to choose, out of an infinite number of facts, what to present, what t...
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The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.
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My viewpoint, in telling the history of the United States, is different: that we must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not comm...
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The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way ...
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The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from th...
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But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the po...
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I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the i...
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Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that it led to...
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Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often...
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History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you. But k...
