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“In the American South, there are hundreds of civil war battle monuments and preserved plantation manor houses for every exhibit that in any way marks the existence of slavery. … And yet the world we live in … is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we trying to forget.”

“It is always temping to believe that a bad system is the fault of one bad man.”

From poet Vachel Lindsay:
“Listen to the yell of Leopold’s ghost,
Burning in Hell for his hand-maimed host.
Hear how the demons chuckle and yell
Cutting his hands off, down in Hell.”