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“Words, I explained, were not bad in and of themselves, but carried histories that require attentiveness and sensitivity.”
― 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
“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
“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
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