97 Quotes by James W. Loewen

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

By 1970, exclusion was so complete that fewer than 500 black families lived in white suburban neighborhoods in the entire Chicago metropolitan area, and most of those were in just five or six suburbs.

As Benjamin Franklin put it, “No European who has tasted Savage Life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.”48.

It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so. -Josh Billings.

Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the eye of adoption committees but dull when read by students.

K-12 teachers. Many work in classrooms for as many as thirty-five hours a week; on top of that they must assign, read, and comment on homework, prepare and grade exams, and develop next week’s lesson plans.

On Ho Chi Minh’s desk in Hanoi on the day he died lay a biography of John Brown.

On his first voyage, Columbus kidnapped some ten to twenty-five American Indians and took them back with him to Spain.55 Only seven or eight arrived alive, but along with the parrots, gold trinkets, and other exotica, they caused quite a stir in Seville.

For our first seventy years as a nation, then, slavery made our foreign policy more sympathetic with imperialism than with self-determination.