Thread by @blackrepublican

“Society is a partnership between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”

— Edmund Burke

Baldwin's Burkean Side

"Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have."

-- James Baldwin #BlackHistoryMonth

"Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past."

Malcolm X.

Reasonable conservatives subscribe to Edmund Burke's view that change and conservation aren't always in conflict.

"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation."

― Edmund Burke