Samantha

“Americans often 'forget; that our history is not a Whiggish progress toward greater and greater freedom and equality but a far more complex story in which gains are made and last, rights are expanded and sometimes revoked, and ideas long since discredited rise like ghosts to haunt later generations. If our history teaches anything, it is that the question 'Who is an American?' has never had a fixed or simple answer.”
― Eric Forner

“History can degenerate into nostalgia for an imaginary golden age, or inspire a Utopian quest to erase the past altogether. And it can force people to think differently about their society by bringing to light unpleasant truths.”
― Eric Forner