Well, I think we still have to verify whatever declaration we will get and make sure that it is comprehensive and accurate. So, that would take care of the past activities.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.
The Declaration is a magnificent document.
Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.
We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
All I wanted was for the public to be able to have a say in how they are governed. That is a milestone we left a long time ago.
We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.
The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.
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