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“Indeed, antebellum home sites go to extraordinary lengths to avoid mentioning slavery.”

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“Or consider the relative power of the three branches of government ... some political scientists claim that a fourth branch - the CIA, National Security Council, and other covert agencies - has developed in the last thirty years. The Constitution cannot save democracy when officials in the FBI, CIA, State Department, and undercover agencies determine not only our policies but also how much the people, the Congress, and perhaps even the president need to know about them.”

History Parks Museums Nonfiction Memorials

Author:James W Loewen

“Some mountains require not just physical strength but also spiritual acumen. They need you to have patience, perseverance, and resilience, but above that, discernment.”

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Book:Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World

Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World

“For that matter, even if the owners and workers in a historic site had not included a president, most visitors would want to hear about the important events in their lives, not just about their furniture.”

History Parks Museums Nonfiction Memorials Guidebooks

Book:Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

Source: Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

“This is why I paint," he says. "To get black men into museums.”

Art Artist Museums Black Men

Author:Jennifer Clement

“Imagine if we natives went to the cemeteries in your cities and dug up your beloved relatives, pulled off rings, watches, and clothes, and called them "artifacts," then carried the bones over to the university for study so we could understand you. Consider that there are more bones of native people in universities and museums for study, than there are those of us living.”

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Book:Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

Source: Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems

“Art, he felt, let him down. For great paintings he felt only respect. Museum spaces beckoned him in, even welcomed him, but then left him on his own.”

Art Isolation Museums Paintings

Book:Strangers

Source: Strangers

“One day in the future someone will look at this period in history and wonder why there were so many people completely insane and self-destructing themselves. Why were so many filled with hatred, jealousy and resentment. Why were so many fighting for ideals that have no value, like flag colors, skin color, teams and objects. They will probably create museums to contemplate the insanity of humanity and those museums will be filled with horror and ruins, in the same way we now look at roman coliseums. And they will then treasure the truth more than anything, and every book created until then will be seen as nothing more than a memory that persisted in time.”

Hatred Jealousy Insanity Museums Resentment

Author:Dan Desmarques

“Our lives are devoted to our absence—to the idea that no trace of ourselves should be left in our work.”

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Book:Metropolitan Stories

Source: Metropolitan Stories

“Melvin thought about the museum inhaling so much of the world—all that history, all that spiritual juice, all the passions and laments of each visitor—without ever really exhaling.”

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Book:Metropolitan Stories

Source: Metropolitan Stories

“I can’t think of anything more depressing than to be an Egyptian high priest on display next to a set of vintage wagon wheels and a two-headed chicken.”

Book:All the Bright Places

Source: All the Bright Places