Quotes from The 1619 Project — Nikole Hannah-Jones
born 1976 United States
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The hundred-year period of racial apartheid and racial terrorism known as Jim Crow.
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If we are truly a great nation, the truth cannot destroy us.
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White Americans desire to be free of a past they do not want to remember, while Black Americans remain bound to a past they can never forget.
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None of us can be held responsible for the wrongs of our ancestors. But if today we choose not to do the right and necessary thing, that burden we own.
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School curricula generally treat slavery as an aberration in a free society, and textbooks largely ignore the way that many prominent men, women, industries, and institutions profited from and protected slavery.
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While history is what happened, it is also, just as important, how we think about what happened and what we unearth and choose to remember about what happened
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