From William Shakespeare's The Tempest and also engraved on the Northeast corner of the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C.
What has happened before is what will come again unless we remember our history and take action.
And now, from Stanford University Libraries comes the French Revolution Digital Archive - from their home page:
About the collections
The French Revolution Digital Archive (FRDA) is a multi-year collaboration of the Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) to produce a digital version of the key research sources of the French Revolution and make them available to the international scholarly community. The archive is based around two main resources, the Archives parlementaires and a vast corpus of images first brought together in 1989 and known as the Images de la Revolution française.
This one image sticks in my mind as being just as germane today as it was back then:
Alphonse - Hey - the entrenched bureaucracy isn't listening to us!
Gaston - I know - what should we do?
Alphonse - Hey, let's revolt!
Like this has ever worked for the peoples' good. Fscking idiots. Don't read your history? You are doomed to repeat the same stupidity that your ancestors had to muddle through. I have stories that would make your skin crawl. The true origins of the slave trade? The true origins of the palestinian people? Just scratching the surface...
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