Richard

“I should fancy that the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial.”
― Oscar Wilde

“He is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins. —FREDERICK DOUGLASS”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“The duty of the historian,” Gordon Craig has reminded us, “is to restore to the past the options it once had.” Craig also pointed out that this is an appropriate way to teach history and to make it memorable.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“If climate change drove the megafauna extinct, then this presents yet another reason to worry about what we are doing to global temperatures. If, on the other hand, people were to blame—and it seems increasingly likely that they were—then the import is almost more disturbing. It would mean that the current extinction event began all the way back in the middle of the last ice age. It would mean that man was a killer—to use the term of art an “overkiller”—pretty much right from the start.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History