“History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do. It could scarcely be otherwise, since it is to history that we owe our frames of reference, our identities, and our aspirations.”
-James
Baldwin
“Although we today are not responsible for the injustices of
the past; we are responsible for the way we remember the past and what we do
with that past.”
-Elie Wiesel
What can we learn about tolerance from the history of
a very particular hatred?
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