# Quote — Nikole Hannah-Jones, The 1619 Project: Born on the Water

> 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.

- Author: [Nikole Hannah-Jones](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nikole-hannah-jones.md)
- Book: [The 1619 Project: Born on the Water](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nikole-hannah-jones/the-1619-project-born-on-the-water.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nikole-hannah-jones/the-1619-project-born-on-the-water/we-cannot-make

## More from this book

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nikole-hannah-jones/the-1619-project-born-on-the-water/white-americans-desire.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nikole-hannah-jones/the-1619-project-born-on-the-water/if-we-are.md)