97 Quotes by James W. Loewen

The Truth can set us free.

We jettisoned our medical practices of the 1780s while retaining the Constitution. But Native American medicinal practitioners who abandon their traditional ways to embrace pasteurization from France and antibiotics from England are seen as compromising their Indian-ness. We can alter our modes of transportation or housing while remaining "American". Indians cannot and stay "Indian" in our eyes.

We seem to feel that a person like Helen Keller can be an inspiration only so long as she remains uncontroversial, one-dimensional. We don't want complicated icons. "People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions," Helen Keller pointed out. "Conclusions are not always pleasant.

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. – ABRAHAM LINCOLN1.

People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. Evidence must be located, not created, and opinions not backed by evidence cannot be given much weight.

Many sundown towns had not a single black household as late as the 2000 census, and some still openly exclude to this day.

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

The next successful Republican candidate, Ronald Reagan, deliberately chose a citadel of white supremacy – the Neshoba County Fair in Mississippi – as the kickoff site for his presidential campaign, where he declared his support for “states rights,” code words signaling that the federal government should leave local jurisdictions to handle the “race problem” as they see fit.