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“Peter H. Wood wrote in a 1999 paper on slavery and denial, "After all, as several eminent academics have recently reminded us, 'nations need to control their national memory, because nations keep their shape by shaping their citizens' understanding of the past.”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“It was a freedom that understood what it was against but not what it was for, a malnourished and mean kind of freedom that kept you out of chains but did not provide bread or shelter or a means to get ahead.”
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
― The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
“Thus Nazism, as it proceeded from practice to theory, had to deny expertness in thinking and then (this second process was never completed), in order to fill the vacuum, had to establish expert thinking of its own—that is, to find men of inferior or irresponsible caliber whose views conformed dishonestly or, worse yet, honestly to the Party line. The nonpolitical pastor satisfied Nazi requirements by being nonpolitical. But the nonpolitical schoolmaster was, by the very virtue of being nonpolitical, a dangerous man from the first. He himself would not rebel, nor would he, if he could help it, teach rebellion; but he could not help being dangerous—not if he went on teaching what was true. In order to be a theory and not just a practice, National Socialism required the destruction of academic independence.”
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
“History has shown that few of us who benefit from the order of things are willing to compromise what we have for the good of the whole.”
― The Breaks: An Essay
― The Breaks: An Essay
“Now I see a little better how Nazism overcame Germany—not by attack from without or by subversion from within, but with a whoop and a holler. It was what most Germans wanted—or, under pressure of combined reality and illusion, came to want. They wanted it; they got it; and they liked it. I came back home a little afraid for my country, afraid of what it might want, and get, and like, under pressure of combined reality and illusion.”
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
― They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45
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