I don't think we can build much of a future,' says Shara, 'without knowing the truth of the past. It's time to be honest about what the world really was, and what it is now.

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We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?

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History will not let us forget: it wears disguises, reintroduces itself to us, claims it is someone new and wonderful. But let us not forget.

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...history, as you may know, is much like a spiral staircase that gives the illusion of going up, but never quite goes anywhere.

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Historians, I think, should be keepers of truth. We must tell things as they are - honestly, and without subversion. That is the greatest good one can do.

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We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow.

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