Quotes by John Hope Franklin - Page 1

One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story.
John Hope Franklin / Historian
Excitement
Hearing
Stories
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I am very fortunate, and I never stopped being thankful.
John Hope Franklin / Historian
Being Thankful
Fortunate
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Love each other. Regard each other as members of one family.
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Love Each Other
Members
Regard
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It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.
John Hope Franklin / Historian
Historian
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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.
John Hope Franklin / Historian
House
Order
Past
Begin
Cannot
Set
Must
Present
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If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past
John Hope Franklin / Historian
Motivational
Order
Past
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The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.
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History
Prejudice
Writing
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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.
John Hope Franklin / Historian
Journey
Travel
African American
Depth
Textbooks
Wilderness
Go
Beyond
Depths
Explore
Must
Tell
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My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly.
John Hope Franklin / Historian
Inspirational
Motivational
History
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There's no reason in the world why black [people] should not be regarded as an attribute that is not degrading but is positive. There's no reason in the world why any person should think that white is degrading.
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People
Thinking
White
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I went to college on my way to be a lawyer. That's all I wanted to do was go back home and help my daddy. I thought we were poor because he was not a good businessman and I was going to become the lawyer who would take charge of the business.
John Hope Franklin / Historian
Home
College
Daddy
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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.
John Hope Franklin / Historian
Truth
Appreciate
Country
Goodness
Indispensable
Ingredients
Life Lesson
Monopoly
Scholarship
Western
Western World
Begin
Better World
Lesson
Perhaps
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One of the problems in the United States is the refusal on the part of our young people to remember or to want to remember, or to recognize the experiences of the past as being relevant, germane, important to the present and to the future. They simply don't want anything that's painful. They want to live in a painless society where everything is pleasant, and everything is joyful.
John Hope Franklin / Historian
Important
Past
People
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