And those men of marvellous hindsight who are today seeking to preach the Negro back to the present peonage of the soil know well, or ought to know, that the opportunity of binding the Negro peasant willingly to the soil was lost on that day when the Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau had to go to South Carolina and tell the weeping freedmen, after their years of toil, that their land was not theirs, that there was a mistake-somewhere.
"The Souls of Black Folk"
W. E. B. Du Bois
A penny for their thoughts when confronting a Picasso without the vantage of hindsight.
"Sympathetic Magic"
Paul Cameron Brown
"If my hindsight was as good as my foresight, and I had my eyesight, I wouldn't be in this dilemma at all," the old man retorted briskly.
"The Valley of the Giants"
Peter B. Kyne