by Stoneheart

Created on: July 12, 2008   Last Updated: July 14, 2008

How do we progress but by learning from what goes right and what goes wrong, and understanding why?

Does not learning from the mistakes of those who have come before us make more sense than making them ourselves?

History is the story of decisions and their results.

White people born after the end of World War II were appalled when they witnessed, watching TV news reports, the treatment of Negroes in southern states. Their parents had a least suspected how Negroes were treated in the South; lynchings, KKK atrocities and the like were widely reported throughout the U.S. before the war. The news reports were true reality television. The reaction was the Civil Rights Movement, the U.S. government finally standing up for citizens it had previously forsaken, and the integration of more and more Americans into society. Some 40 years later, no longer shocking or rarely a cause for violence is the sight of people whose skin is not pale together with pale skin people on the streets, in the workplace, socializing, or on TV. Popular awareness is dangerous to those who believe they are superior to other people and use ignorance to be powerful.

From August 1914 to November 1918, thousands of Jews died fighting World War I battles, soldiers in the German army. Millions died little more than 20 years later, those who didn't leave Germany because they were German and Germany was their country and those abandoned by their neighbors in Germany and the countries occupied by the German army. Know the world in which you live and the people who share it with you.

Women have always been as capable as men. Over 100 years before they were granted the right to vote in the U.S., by the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, groups of women worked to gain equal rights. Then, in 1917, the U.S. entered World War I. Men went off to war. Women went to work, doing man jobs. Women who believed themselves to be inferior to men realized they were at least equal. Men realized this too, or that the war might be lost if women weren't granted the right to vote. People gathering together can result each of them realizing their individual worth and that they are not alone in thinking what they think or believing what they believe. Working together side-by-side builds people can achieve goals individually unachievable.

Over 100 years ago, the Standard Oil Company and other petroleum producers profited from abusive control of oil. The attitude of the men who controlled the companies was, in essence, "Damn

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