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Quotes about Collective memory

Remember what the Amalekites did to you along your way from Egypt,
- Deuteronomy 25:17
Paul Tillich once defined forgiveness as remembering the past in order that it might be forgotten—a principle that applies to nations as well as individuals.
- Philip Yancey
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
- Malcolm X
For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
- Elie Wiesel
A nation that forgets its past has no future
- Winston Churchill
A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We cannot separate the history of a nation from the people of that nation.
- Jerry Bridges
Even if I wrote on nothing else, it would never be enough, even if all the survivors did nothing but write about their experiences, it would still not be enough. *Response when asked how much longer is he going to write about the Holocaust.
- Elie Wiesel
To forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
- Elie Wiesel
Properly speaking, a culture does not have a tradition; it is a tradition.
- James Carse