David W. Blight Quote

It is not well to forget the past, Douglass warned in a speech later in the 1880s. Memory was given to man for some wise purpose. The past is . . . the mirror in which we may discern the dim outlines of the future and by which we may make them more symmetrical.

David W. Blight

It is not well to forget the past, Douglass warned in a speech later in the 1880s. Memory was given to man for some wise purpose. The past is . . . the mirror in which we may discern the dim outlines of the future and by which we may make them more symmetrical.

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