Lacking remembered history forfeits one’s claim to the nation-state.

Evidence

If you are not memorable, if you have no worthy history, then you are deemed to have no claim not simply on national remembrance but on the nation-state itself, because you are seen to have no place in it. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 136

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Leaving cultivated land to waste forfeits one’s claim to it — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 48