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John Hope Franklin Quotes

«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.»
«?We know all too little about the factors that affect the attitudes of the peoples of the world toward one another. It is clear, however, that color and race are at once the most important and the most enigmatic.?»
«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.»
«If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.»
«One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.»
«I think he's been in every courthouse basement in the South,»
«We are going to do our best to reach out to every citizen of the United States, to engage them in every way possible, and to make certain that they appreciate fully the opportunity which we have to do something not only significant but even spectacular.»
«Her determination (was) to stand up, not merely for herself, not merely for all women, not merely for African-Americans but for all Americans.»
«I want to be out there on the firing line, helping, directing or doing something to try to make this a better world, a better place to live,»
«I'm just waiting to see if it will happen. I've been disillusioned so many times before. It's 2006, and there's nothing in the nation's capital to show what happened to African-Americans. Nothing.»