Quotes by John Franklin

• We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.
• We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.
• If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.
• It was necessary, as a black historian, to have a personal agenda.