The past is not dead; it is not even past, for it lives with... - Leopold Sédar Senghor

This quote is attributed to Leopold Sédar Senghor.

"The past is not dead; it is not even past, for it lives within us and shapes our future."

Leopold Sédar Senghor History

President, Poet Senegalese 1906–2001

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