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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined. – Justice Hugo Black, 1964.”

51. “Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined. – Justice Hugo Black, 1964.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “And yet the 2019 Washington Post poll found that despite their meager knowledge of slavery, two-thirds of Americans believe that the legacy of slavery still affects our society today. They can see and feel the truth of this fact – they just haven’t learned a history that helps them understand how and why.12.”

52. “And yet the 2019 Washington Post poll found that despite their meager knowledge of slavery, two-thirds of Americans believe that the legacy of slavery still affects our society today. They can see and feel the truth of this fact – they just haven’t learned a history that helps them understand how and why.12.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “As Jefferson composed his inspiring words, however, a teenage boy who would enjoy none of those rights and liberties waited nearby to serve at his master’s beck and call. His name was Robert Hemings, and he was the half-Black brother of Jefferson’s wife, Martha, born to her father and a woman he enslaved.16.”

53. “As Jefferson composed his inspiring words, however, a teenage boy who would enjoy none of those rights and liberties waited nearby to serve at his master’s beck and call. His name was Robert Hemings, and he was the half-Black brother of Jefferson’s wife, Martha, born to her father and a woman he enslaved.16.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “Garrison implied that it was “turbulent” Black behavior that drove racist reactions among white people who would otherwise hold Black people in “esteem,” an inversion of the true cause and effect of racism.”

54. “Garrison implied that it was “turbulent” Black behavior that drove racist reactions among white people who would otherwise hold Black people in “esteem,” an inversion of the true cause and effect of racism.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “This remarkable imperviousness to facts when it comes to white advantage and architected Black disadvantage is what emboldens some white Americans to quote the passage from Martin Luther King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech about being judged by the content of your character and not by the color of your skin.”

55. “This remarkable imperviousness to facts when it comes to white advantage and architected Black disadvantage is what emboldens some white Americans to quote the passage from Martin Luther King’s 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech about being judged by the content of your character and not by the color of your skin.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “The police inveighed upon conservative California assemblyman David Donald “Don” Mulford to change the state’s gun laws to make the open carry of firearms illegal and, thus, undermine the Panthers’ community self-defense strategy.”

56. “The police inveighed upon conservative California assemblyman David Donald “Don” Mulford to change the state’s gun laws to make the open carry of firearms illegal and, thus, undermine the Panthers’ community self-defense strategy.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “Slavery persisted, and grew, protected by the argument that it was going away.”

57. “Slavery persisted, and grew, protected by the argument that it was going away.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “Given the choice between parity with Black people – by inviting them into unified unions – and poverty, white workers chose poverty, spoiling the development of a multiracial mass labor movement in America.”

58. “Given the choice between parity with Black people – by inviting them into unified unions – and poverty, white workers chose poverty, spoiling the development of a multiracial mass labor movement in America.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “The wealth and prominence that allowed Jefferson, at just thirty-three, and the other founding fathers to believe they could successfully break off from one of the mightiest empires in the world came in part from the dizzying profits generated by chattel slavery. So they also understood that abolition would have upended the economies of both the North and the South.”

59. “The wealth and prominence that allowed Jefferson, at just thirty-three, and the other founding fathers to believe they could successfully break off from one of the mightiest empires in the world came in part from the dizzying profits generated by chattel slavery. So they also understood that abolition would have upended the economies of both the North and the South.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “Most church fellowships are more concerned about drinking or new buildings or Sunday closing than about children who die of rat bites or men who are killed because they want to be treated like men.”

60. “Most church fellowships are more concerned about drinking or new buildings or Sunday closing than about children who die of rat bites or men who are killed because they want to be treated like men.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “Black Americans who have consistently made the case, even when they were utterly disenfranchised and forced out of the political process, that all citizens deserve equal access to the benefits of a country founded on a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

61. “Black Americans who have consistently made the case, even when they were utterly disenfranchised and forced out of the political process, that all citizens deserve equal access to the benefits of a country founded on a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “Around the time of her death, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data showing that Black Americans were 1.4 times more likely than white ones to contract the virus, 3.2 times more likely to be hospitalized, and 2.8 times more likely to die.”

62. “Around the time of her death, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data showing that Black Americans were 1.4 times more likely than white ones to contract the virus, 3.2 times more likely to be hospitalized, and 2.8 times more likely to die.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “Reagan and other officials quickly realized there was a political gold mine in white fear. Identifying African Americans as criminals, “thugs,” and “mad dogs” and as an imminent threat to white communities, white lives, and white prosperity allowed the racialized “public safety” policies of Jim Crow to survive in the post–Civil Rights era.”

63. “Reagan and other officials quickly realized there was a political gold mine in white fear. Identifying African Americans as criminals, “thugs,” and “mad dogs” and as an imminent threat to white communities, white lives, and white prosperity allowed the racialized “public safety” policies of Jim Crow to survive in the post–Civil Rights era.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “America has a way of dancing with its own delusion.”

64. “America has a way of dancing with its own delusion.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “By the eve of the Civil War, the Mississippi Valley was home to more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the United States.”

65. “By the eve of the Civil War, the Mississippi Valley was home to more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the United States.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “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.”

66. “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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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “The long sweep of America has been defined by two forward motions: one force widening the embrace of Black Americans and another force maintaining or widening their exclusion. The duel between these two forces represents the duel at the heart of America’s racial history.”

67. “The long sweep of America has been defined by two forward motions: one force widening the embrace of Black Americans and another force maintaining or widening their exclusion. The duel between these two forces represents the duel at the heart of America’s racial history.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “In several Southern counties, mortgages taken out on enslaved workers injected more capital into the economy than sales from the crops harvested by workers themselves. Global financial markets had powered the slave economy for years. When Thomas Jefferson mortgaged his enslaved workers in 1796 to build Monticello, it was a Dutch firm that put up most of the money.”

68. “In several Southern counties, mortgages taken out on enslaved workers injected more capital into the economy than sales from the crops harvested by workers themselves. Global financial markets had powered the slave economy for years. When Thomas Jefferson mortgaged his enslaved workers in 1796 to build Monticello, it was a Dutch firm that put up most of the money.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “The relentless buying, selling, insuring, and financing of their bodies and the products of their forced labor would help make Wall Street a thriving banking, insurance, and trading sector, and New York City a financial capital of the world.13.”

69. “The relentless buying, selling, insuring, and financing of their bodies and the products of their forced labor would help make Wall Street a thriving banking, insurance, and trading sector, and New York City a financial capital of the world.13.”

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Quote: “The number of enslaved Africans swelled by 70 percent, from 697,681 in the first federal census of 1790 to 1,191,362 in 1810, and more than tripled over the next fifty years.23.”

70. “The number of enslaved Africans swelled by 70 percent, from 697,681 in the first federal census of 1790 to 1,191,362 in 1810, and more than tripled over the next fifty years.23.”

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