# Nikole Hannah-Jones

- Quotes: 10
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## Books

- [The 1619 Project: Born on the Water](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nikole-hannah-jones/the-1619-project-born-on-the-water.md) — 10 quotes

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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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> 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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> If we are truly a great nation, the truth cannot destroy us.

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> The racism we are fighting today was originally conjured to justify working unfree Black people, often until death, to generate extravagant riches for ... all the ancillary white people ... who earned their living and built their wealth from that free Black labor.

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> Reparations amount to a societal obligation in a nation where our Constitution sanctioned slavery, Congress passed laws protecting it, and our federal government initiated, condoned, and practiced legal racial segregation and discrimination against Black Americans until half a century ago. And so it is the federal government that would pay [reparations].

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> To this day, the only Americans who have ever received government restitution for slavery were white enslavers in Washington, D.C., whom the federal government compensated after the Civil War for their loss of human property.

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> We cannot make up for all the lives lost and dreams snatched, for all the suffering endured. But we can atone for it. We can acknowledge the crime. And we can do something to try to set things right, to ease the hardship and hurt of so many of our fellow Americans.

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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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> The hundred-year period of racial apartheid and racial terrorism known as Jim Crow.

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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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