“ Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed. DaShanne Stokes
“ The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history. If textbook authors feel compelled to give good moral instruction, the way origin myths have always done, th… James W. Loewen
“ Instead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jewish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing the progress of humanity, modern history has postulated its own… Leo Tolstoy
“ Insularity is the foundation of ethnocentrism and intolerance; when you only know of those like yourself, it is easy to imagine that you are alone in the world or alone in being good and right in the… Jack David Eller
“ The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we would condemn. By refusing to consider as human those who see… Claude Levi-Strauss
“ Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures. Criss Jami
“ But what is identity really? What is it to ‘belong’ when we cast ourselves in the mold of a social group? I ask this, in spite of my implicit allegiance to one; yet, it is a worthwhile question. I mea… Ashim Shanker
“ Don’t misunderstand me. The terrorist actions of Al-Qaeda were and are unmitigatedly evil. But the astonishing naivety which decreed that America as a whole was a pure, innocent victim, so that the wo… N.T. Wright
