What happened, happened. This sentence is just as true as it is hostile to morals and intellect. The moral power to resist contains the protest, the revolt against reality, which is rational only as long as it is moral.

—JEAN AMÉRY, At the Mind’s Limits

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

—JAMES BALDWIN, “As Much Truth as One Can Bear”

History will not go away, except through our perfect acknowledgment of it.

—STANLEY CAVELL, Must We Mean What We Say?