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“Once transposed into metaphor, slavery could serve to unite white colonists of whatever region under a banner of white exclusivity.”
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

“In the weeks and months that followed, thousands upon thousands of protesters took to the streets in all fifty states, in large cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, and New York, as well as in suburbs, small and medium-sized towns, and rural areas. Protests erupted even in places as far away as Hong Kong, South Africa, Germany, South Korea, and New Zealand. Never before had a Black rebellion been met with such widespread support by people of all colors, classes, and walks of life.”
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

“Augustine’s caritas is the basis for founding new communities on common moral judgment as well as the existential, determining “fact” of shared history.”
― Hannah Arendt, Love and Saint Augustine

“The truth is that we might never have revolted against Britain if some of the founders had not understood that slavery empowered them to do so;”
― Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story