John Hope Franklin Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by John Hope Franklin:

It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.
~John Hope Franklin


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If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
~John Hope Franklin


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-hope-franklin-quotes/#b2df59c9

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.
~John Hope Franklin


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-hope-franklin-quotes/#da970e94

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.
~John Hope Franklin


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/john-hope-franklin-quotes/#535dfc5c

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