Top 34 Loewen Quotes
#1. And James Loewen just proved that we all are wrong... this concept is fucking hard to be swallowed.
Deyth Banger
#2. Merely being part of the United States, without regard to our own acts and ideas, does not make us moral or immoral beings. History is more complicated than that.
James W. Loewen
#3. Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.
James W. Loewen
#4. But Teia had a superpower that no one had counted on: she was completely paranoid. She had thought she was being followed a hundred times since she'd started working for the Order, so she'd figured out a thing or two. One, she was a paranoid mess. Two, she was pretty good at it.
Brent Weeks
#5. Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.
James W. Loewen
#6. Even cooking at home, the difference between my wife cooking and me cooking is major. When my wife cooks, the kitchen looks like a disaster. When I cook it's completely clean and organized and it doesn't look like anyone has been cooking in there.
Tom Colicchio
#7. I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds.
Jaggi Vasudev
#8. At this point the judge took over the questioning. "Didn't lynchings happen in Mississippi?" he asked. Yes, admitted the rating committee member, but it was all so long ago, why dwell on it now? "It is a history book, isn't it?" asked the judge.
James W. Loewen
#9. History is furious debate informed by evidence and reason.
James W. Loewen
#10. History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.
James W. Loewen
#11. The advice of his father came back to
him, never to take your eyes off a
wounded boar: that once you
engaged an animal in the hunt, you must
fight it to the finish, and that when a boar
was wounded, that was when it the most
dangerous animal of all.
That thought nagged at him.
C.S. Pacat
#12. In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.
James W. Loewen
#13. By idolizing those whom we honor, we do a disservice both to them and to ourselves ... We fail to recognize that we could go and do likewise. - CHARLES V. WILLIE
James W. Loewen
#14. Socially, segregation labeled African Americans as less than human; the term "boy" itself, applied to the Scottsboro defendants even as they became elderly, implied that they were less than men.
James W. Loewen
#15. By 1970, exclusion was so complete that fewer than 500 black families lived in white suburban neighborhoods in the entire Chicago metropolitan area, and most of those were in just five or six suburbs.
James W. Loewen
#16. What a community erects on its historical landscape not only sums up its view of the past but also influences its possible futures.
James W. Loewen
#17. People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight.
James W. Loewen
#18. The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.
James W. Loewen
#19. The line between actual killing and verbal, symbolic, or imaginary violence is thin and permeable. The threat of violence is a method of forceful coercion, even if no blood is actually shed.
John J. Collins
#22. Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the eye of adoption committees but dull when read by students.
James W. Loewen
#23. The exciting isolation of leaning against the wind on the highway hitchhiking, waiting for someone to stop and offer me a lift, perhaps to a town three miles down the road, perhaps to new friendship, perhaps to death.
Luke Rhinehart
#24. Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.
James W. Loewen
#25. My doubts vanished as well. Doubt was for things that did not know their purpose, and I knew mine.
Jim Butcher
#26. Wealth is also defined by family, connection to our ancestry, and our best vision of the future. All of these find their inner spirit, their constancy, and their strength in the values that shape our thinking and our actions.
Nainoa Thompson
#27. Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual
James W. Loewen
#30. It is not too much to say that the blacks in Georgia and the Carolinas made Sherman's march possible. Their help meant that Sherman's forces would not be traveling through hostile territory without supply lines. Rather, the soldiers were more like a huge guerilla force in friendly territory.
James W. Loewen
#31. And when Peace here does house
He comes with work to do, he does not come to coo,
He comes to brood and sit.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
#32. [The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture.
Sigmund Freud
#33. The historian must have no country. - JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
James W. Loewen
#34. Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. "What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America" is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, "our Original Sin.
James W. Loewen
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