Winston Churchill Quotes

He was one of the few Irish clerics who urged a reproachment between Catholics and Protestants.

In 2012 University President James Wagner and Gary Hauk, Emory's vice president of the Emory University made this apology for the anti-Semitic practices of earlier decades when the few Jewish Students who had been accepted because of their high grades and test scores were simply sent letters that their performance had been unsatisfactory and they were not allowed to return to school by the anti-Semitic Dean of the Dental School—John Buhler, . None of the Jewish had ever gotten a poor grade or been talked to about inadequate performance by any of the professors and the Dean would never give a reason that they had been flunked out. See {629671} for the quotation of one of the students who later produced the documentary.

This advice after the horrors of WWII, was resented by many who wanted justice and retribution. However, the West managed to put the war behind them and go forward. However, there are many countries and cultures that have been able to put the past behind them. The Balkan current strife is fueled by historical memories of atrocities and injustice that go back over 1000 years.

While this statement is logically correct, there are many efforts at revisionist history for reasons other than conveying more accuracy. Most societies have some people who try to recast history, especially about themselves. The Russian Communists are famous for “changing history to reflect a Lennists-Marxist view of the world. The Turks have rewritten their history and text books to eliminate the Armenian Genocide. The Arabs have done the same with respect to the role and presence of Jews in Israel and Jerusalem. In America, during the latter part of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, apologists for Slavery and the South rewrote many texts and media to reflect a fantasy era when slaves were well cared for and happy, the Civil War was fought for reasons other than slavery, and the KKK and other terrorists and murderers were upholding law, order and morality.

For centuries whites had dominated and abused the Blacks of South Africa. When the Black majority finally gained power, there were many calls for retribution and justice. However, under Mandela’s influence, South Africa made one of the most successful transitions of power to the majority who had been oppressed. The concentration on the future made South Africa the most successful country in Africa and a model for the world. See {633690} for another of his implementing statements of this principle.

This is a more nuanced view of history for a nation than the classic one, a Chinese example of one is {89195}.

It is important to know history but not be bogged down by it.

She had been a major celebrity as an TV entertainer, and she then became a politician. However, her political opponents kept referring to her as an entertainer with the implication that that made her unqualified when she tried to run for the Russian presidency.