Arthur M. Schlesinger quotes

Arthur M. Schlesinger was an American historian and social critic, renowned for his studies of American liberalism and twentieth-century politics. His works, such as "A Thousand Days" about the Kennedy administration, have won prestigious awards including the Pulitzer Prize. He significantly shaped contemporary views of American history and political thought. Here are 4 of his quotes:

Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.

Arthur M. Schlesinger

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

Arthur M. Schlesinger

Let us by all means teach black history, African history, women's history, Hispanic history, Asian history. But let us teach them as history, not as filiopietistic commemoration. The purpose of history is to promote not group self-esteem, but understanding of the world and the past, dispassionate analysis, judgment, and perspective, respect for divergent cultures and traditions, and unflinching protection for those unifying ideas of tolerance, democracy, and human rights that make free historical inquiry possible.

Arthur M. Schlesinger