Legacy Effects Quotes

The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham.

No system disappears quickly because habits live on.

The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.

In a lot of places, of course, the '80s had never really come to an end.

No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.

We are still living with the ships of the Atlantic slave trade. They are ghost ships that influenced much of what we are today.

The dictator can be removed in a day, but it can take years to stamp out the lingering remnants of his dictatorship

One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.

South Africans have no concept of time and this is also why we can't solve poverty and social problems… It's now 10 years since the fall of the Apartheid government and we cannot blame Apartheid for being tardy.

Never underestimate how history injects itself into the present.