John Hope Franklin

If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past. ↗

— John Hope Franklin

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It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda. ↗

— John Hope Franklin

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We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. ↗

— John Hope Franklin

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