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The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “emergency situation” in which we live is the rule. We must arrive at a concept of history which co...more

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History is written by the victors.

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To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.

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Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead...more

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There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.

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The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the en...more

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That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe.