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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.
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.
We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodd... (more John Hope Franklin quotes)
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