"They believed they could build a democracy on a foundation of human bondage and somehow escape the consequences. They could not. No one could. And every generation since has lived inside the contradictions they left behind."

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"You cannot understand the present—this sense of a nation drifting toward pariah status, a nation no longer trusted, a nation capable of being bent by a single man and the lieutenants who carry out his will—without stepping back to the beginning, to that moment when the men who declared liberty also wrote slavery into the country’s governing framework."

~ Elisabeth Glassco

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What is America Becoming?

This moment carries history in it—not rupture, but return, shaped by choices made long ago.

^{Dr. D. Elisabeth Glassco (400 Years)}