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Lack of imagination also indicates lack of commitment for figuring it out.

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion (2021)

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An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals.

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