Eric Foner Citas

• Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.

  Eric Foner

  Past, Journey, Discovery

  Eric Foner (2003). “Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World”, p.14, Macmillan

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• If you are going to abolish slavery, that opens up all these other questions: what system of labor is going to replace slave labor? What system of race relations is going to replace the race relations of slavery? Who is going to have power in the post-war South? The Emancipation Proclamation doesn't answer that question, but it throws [it] open.

  Eric Foner

  War, Slave Labor, Race

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.

  Eric Foner

  Past, Allies, Events

  Eric Foner (1988). “Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877”, Harpercollins

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• A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land. Southerners said, - and they weren't being hypocritical - they said slavery is the foundation of freedom because if you own slaves, you are freer yourself.

  Eric Foner

  Men, Land, Foundation

  "Life Is Getting More Difficult for Americans". Interview with Karen Andresen and Cordula Meyer, www.spiegel.de. October 30, 2008.

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• Lincoln ve la esclavitud en cierto modo como un robo de mano de obra. Un esclavo es un trabajador al que se le niega el fruto de su trabajo.

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  Fruit, Slavery, Way

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• A new future requires a new past.

  Eric Foner

  Past, History, New Future

  Eric Foner (2003). “Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World”, p.83, Macmillan

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• Freedom has been privatized - it is how you dress, what your sexual orientation is, choosing your own life. That's fine. But that is not what Thomas Jefferson was talking about.

  Eric Foner

  Talking, Dresses, Fine

  "Life Is Getting More Difficult for Americans". Interview with Karen Andresen and Cordula Meyer, www.spiegel.de. October 30, 2008.

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• Mire, Sra. McGillicuddy, no es culpa mía que su hijo saltara por la ventana de un dormitorio en Nochebuena. He escrito más de cincuenta libros como profesor de Columbia, ¿de acuerdo? No se hace eso dándole la mano a cada estudiante en riesgo que dice que extraña su casa, o que se está volviendo gay, o que el perro se comió su trabajo. Escribo sobre Lincoln, la libertad y las grandes ideas. No siempre tengo tiempo para los estudiantes. Es como Dean Martin solía decir: si quieres hablar, ve a un cura. Oye... ¿para qué es el arma?

  Eric Foner

  Perro, Libro, Escritura

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• I think here is the irony of American history. We don't have an established church. When you have an established church nobody takes religion as seriously as we do here. We have a free market in religion. The religious groups are competing with each other.

  Eric Foner

  Religious, Thinking, Church

  "Life Is Getting More Difficult for Americans". Interview with Karen Andresen and Cordula Meyer, www.spiegel.de. October 30, 2008.

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• A la sombra de la esclavitud abarca dos siglos y medio de vida negra en la ciudad de New York, y entrelaza hábilmente las categorías de raza y clase en la medida en que afectaron a la formación de la identidad afroamericana. Leslie Harris ha hecho una importante contribución a nuestra comprensión de la experiencia negra.

  Eric Foner

  New York, Race, Class

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• Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider essential, whether it's the self-made man, the frontier hero, the politician who tries to act in a moral way as well as in a political way, Honest Abe. His career raises these questions that are still with us, the power of the federal government vis-à-vis the states, the question of race in American life, can we be a society of equals? There are so many issues central to Lincoln's career that are still part of our society one hundred and fifty years later.

  Eric Foner

  Hero, Men, Race

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• Whatever Lincoln's racial views, which are not totally modern and egalitarian in many ways, he believes blacks should have this natural right to improve their condition in life and slavery denies that to them.

  Eric Foner

  Believe, Should Have, Views

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Lincoln ha aceptado a América como una sociedad birracial. Habla de conceder al menos a algunos negros el derecho al voto. En la Proclamación de Emancipación aconseja a algunos negros que trabajen fielmente por un salario razonable, aquí en Estados Unidos. No dice nada de que abandonen el país. Pone a los negros en el ejército. Esa es una visión totalmente diferente a decir simplemente "que se vayan del país". Creo que lo interesante es el cambio en la visión de Lincoln, pero hay que darse cuenta de que él se adhirió a esta idea de la colonización durante muchos años.

  Eric Foner

  Country, Army, Men

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• La colonización era la idea de que, una vez acabada la esclavitud, había que animar -o exigir, en opinión de algunos- a los afroamericanos a abandonar el país. Es parte de una actitud hacia la abolición de la esclavitud que dice que Estados Unidos no debe ser una sociedad esclavista, pero nunca puede ser una sociedad multirracial. Nunca puede haber blancos y negros libres viviendo juntos.

  Eric Foner

  Country, Attitude, Black And White

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• Hay quienes ven a los abolicionistas sólo como maníacos, fanáticos apolíticos que ayudaron a causar la guerra, y Lincoln es el modelo de estadista responsable. Creo que es un concepto erróneo, la idea de que Lincoln sabe lo que es posible y los abolicionistas no.

  Eric Foner

  Guerra, Pensamiento, Ideas

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• En una sociedad democrática, como decía Max Weber, lo que es posible sólo lo es porque algunas personas han exigido lo imposible. Los abolicionistas ayudaron a crear un discurso público en el que hombres como Lincoln se hacen posibles. Eso no significa que Lincoln sea un abolicionista. Significa que existe una opinión pública influida por el sentimiento antiesclavista.

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  Malo, Hombres, Gente

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• You pick up very well-known books on Lincoln [and] you will find almost no reference to his long-term belief in colonization. Why? Because it doesn't fit the image of the Great Emancipator. It doesn't fit the retrospective view we want to have of Lincoln as the man who was the moralist in politics, who came into office committed to ending slavery and waited to sign this document.

  Eric Foner

  Book, Men, Views

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• I admire Lincoln enormously and I think what's interesting about Lincoln is how he changes, it's not that he held the same view throughout his life.

  Eric Foner

  Thinking, Views, Interesting

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• Lincoln was a modernizer, so to speak. He believed in economic development. As a Whig before the war he favored what we would call infrastructure spending, government appropriation for canals, railroads, river and harbor improvements, and a tariff to protect industry. He believed in this market revolution that was sweeping across Northern society. He himself benefited from it in his own life.

  Eric Foner

  War, Rivers, Government

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• Whenever you think of Lincoln as a historian, in his own mind, he becomes the Great Emancipator. This is his role in history henceforth. He was an ambitious man who wanted to make an impact on history, and this is how he did it.

  Eric Foner

  Men, Thinking, Impact

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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• Ni siquiera sé el número de libros que hay en Abraham Lincoln. ¿Diez mil, doce mil? He visto varias cifras. Parece que cada generación está siempre tratando de llegar a un acuerdo con Lincoln.

  Eric Foner

  Book, Always Trying, Numbers

  "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.

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