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“Why do some details become “history”—included in schoolbooks, in scholarly dissertations, or in personal narratives—while other details are forgotten? What scale of information do we accept when we say that we know something about the past?”
― Glenn Kurtz, Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film

“People are people. We’ll always find a way to mess up, doesn’t matter who’s in charge.”
― Malorie Blackman, Naughts & Crosses

“If we’re going to talk about the constitutional right to an abortion, we’re going to talk about it from first principles. And the first principle that the people who wrote the Constitution missed is that women are people. Full, equal, people. If you believe that, and I know a lot of men don’t, but if you believe that women are people, then the right to privacy and all the reproductive rights that flow from it is a fairly straightforward thing.”
― Elie Mystal, Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution

“The downside of erasing history is that you lose what’s beautiful as well as what’s hard to bear.”
― Burkhard Bilger, Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets