“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people. “
Quote by James Baldwin from an article titled “Doom And Glory Of Knowing Who You Are” by Jane Howard in LIFE Magazine May 24th, 1963
REFLECTION:
- What open wounds do you need to face? What open wounds do we as a society need to face?
- What can you learn and apply from history?