Here's a thing
I read quote from Susan Sontag's last book before dying–on the pain of others
Until ~when she said it ('04)––w/35,000+ museums in US
(more than all SBUX + McD'S combined)
aside from Charles H Wright Museum of African American History––
none focused on slavery
I read quote from Susan Sontag's last book before dying–on the pain of others
Until ~when she said it ('04)––w/35,000+ museums in US
(more than all SBUX + McD'S combined)
aside from Charles H Wright Museum of African American History––
none focused on slavery
2/ Other powerful quotes:
“Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.”
"Wherever people feel safe, they will be indifferent."
"Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers."...
“Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.”
"Wherever people feel safe, they will be indifferent."
"Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers."...
3/ More:
“There is simply too much injustice in the world. And too much remembering (of ancient grievances: Serbs, Irish) embitters. To make peace is to forget. To reconcile, it is necessary that memory be faulty and limited.”
“There is simply too much injustice in the world. And too much remembering (of ancient grievances: Serbs, Irish) embitters. To make peace is to forget. To reconcile, it is necessary that memory be faulty and limited.”
4/ “Photographs objectify: they turn an event or a person into something that can be possessed.”
“There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: 'Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
“There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: 'Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
5/ Last one:
“All memory is individual, unreproducible - it dies with each person. What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulating: that this is important, and this is the story about how it happened, with the pictures that lock the story in our minds.”
“All memory is individual, unreproducible - it dies with each person. What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulating: that this is important, and this is the story about how it happened, with the pictures that lock the story in our minds.”
