A magnificent book. They could do it to anybody. So what we must retrieve and hold on to is the sense of liberty, the sense of respect for everybody. We fought a civil war here that was suppose to solve the slavery problem. It took many years and then it took the whole Civil Rights Movement to reinforce it, and the fight still goes on.
Values have to be retrieved.
We have to hold on to them very carefully, very delicately. They are fragile. I did literally learn to save string. My grandmother taught me to save string, and I have little piles of itBonce in a while I do use them. The past is repository of many things, good and bad, although people usually are not this rational.