Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet-Philosopher-Essayist, wrote: "We are but the sum of our ancestors".
Dame Rose MacCaulay, English Novelist, once wrote: "People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered by remote descendants".
Helen Keller said: "There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestry, and no slave who has not had a king among his". I would like to say: "How are we to know ourselves, if we do not know our ancestors".
Carl Sandburg said: "When a nation goes down or a society perishes, one condition may always be found: they forgot where they came from".