If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
“If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.”
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If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
“If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.”
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“If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.”
“We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.”
“It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.”
“We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.”
“That which is inhuman cannot be divine.”
“We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.”
“You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.”
“Love cannot save you from your own fate.”
“A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.”
“There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”