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I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my mother's mother. Your father's mother's mother's mother. I hardly knew her. I didn't have any interest in knowing her. I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me. What kind of letter? my grandmother asked. I told her to write whatever she wanted to write. You want a letter from me? she asked. I told her yes. Oh, God bless you, she said. The letter she gave me was sixty-seven pages long. It was the story of her life. She made my request into her own. Listen to me. ↗


— Jonathan Safran Foer


#history #past #family

Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ↗


— George Macaulay Trevelyan


#history #nonfiction #reading #social-commentary #education

There is no shame in not knowing your history, the shame lies in not finding out. ↗


— Habeeb Akande


#history #knowledge #shame #education

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. ↗


— George Santayana


#history #justice #learning #philosophy #politics

At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black. ↗


— George Clooney


#gay-rights #historical-perspective #political #equality

Please be SILENT and LISTEN. I am the SCHOOLMASTER and you are in the CLASSROOM. Just like ELEVEN PLUS TWO equals TWELVE PLUS ONE, And even a FUNERAL can be REAL FUN, You will find my DICTIONARY is quite INDICATORY. If you want to read my story, just look... THEN UNREAD. ↗


— Pseudonymous Bosch


#bosch #poem #pseudonymous #the-name-of-this-book-is-secret #equality

If while on your way you meet no one your equal or better, steadily continue on your way alone. There is no fellowship with fools. ↗


— Dhammapada


#dhammapada #theravada #equality

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality. ↗


— Charles Baudelaire


#equality

The importance of setting a date, as in choosing a colour, is a matter of selection. Orange may be seen equally well as 'the decline and fall of red' or 'the rise and triumph of yellow'. ↗


— Donald Thomas


#history #thought-provoking #dating

When fear and suffering are disliked by me and others equally what is so special about me that I protect myself and not the other? ↗


— Śāntideva


#philosophy #equality






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