Exactly because the past is forgotten, it rules unchallenged; to be transcended it must first be remembered. - Russell Jacoby

Multiculturalism is not the opposite of assimilation, but its product.

Dialectical logic is loyal to the contradictions, not by the reasoning of “on the one hand and the other” but by tracing the contradictions to their fractured source.

The individual, before it can determine itself, is determined by the relations in which it is enmeshed. “It is a fellow-being before it is a being.”