“If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.”
Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
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Elie Wiesel155
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in Hendricks, V: “500CC Computer Citations”, King’s College Publications, London,2005.
“How can people be anything but ignorant when knowledge isn’t saved, isn’t taught?”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
“The Finder” (p. 67)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
“Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.”
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
"Yellow Bicycle," trans. Czesław Miłosz and Robert Hass
Unattainable Earth (1986)
Masta Killa (1969) American rapper and member of the Wu-Tang Clan
Reported in “Masta Killa Says, 'Go Veg for Life'”, in peta2.com http://www.peta2.com/heroes/masta-killa-says-go-veg-for-life/. Also quoted in “Masta Killa Praised For Being Animal-friendly”, in contactmusic.net (25 January 2008) http://www.contactmusic.net/wu-tang-clan/news/masta-killa-praised-for-being-animal-friendly_1057451.
George Sutherland (1862–1942) Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, United States Senator, member of the United States House of Re…
Associated Press v. National Labor Relations Board, 301 U.S. 103, 141 (1937) (dissenting)
Context: Do the people of this land—in the providence of God, favored, as they sometimes boast, above all others in the plenitude of their liberties—desire to preserve those so carefully protected by the First Amendment: liberty of religious worship, freedom of speech and of the press, and the right as freemen peaceably to assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances? If so, let them withstand all beginnings of encroachment. For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time.
