Human history has long awaited the time when the energy of hope and creativity will arise from among the most downtrodden and oppressed. When people who have experienced such abuses become empowered and take their place at the heart of international society, and their welfare becomes the focus of new ideas and new thinking, our world will be immeasurably enriched—both in a material and a spiritual sense.
Stories of Hope
Arnold Toynbee
Historian Arnold Toynbee dared to challenge stereotypes of people and cultures—and was fired from London University as a result.