Education came to be one of the great preoccupations, enlightenment was viewed as the greatest single opportunity to escape . . . . Parents made untold sacrifice to secure learning for their children that they had been denied.
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. . . Historical facts are all pervasive and cut through the most rigid barriers of race and caste.John Hope Franklin
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
It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.
John Hope Franklin
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
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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