Edward Gibbon/later Years - 1789%e2%80%931794

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    “The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.”
    —Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

    “These young women have had four years of very special space.... This has been special space. This has been safe space. But when they graduate, they will begin to deal on a daily basis, all day long, month after month, year after year, with the realities that still haunt our nation.”
    —Johnnetta Betsch Cole (b. 1936)