'I'm trying to understand as a descendant of slaves how to feel good about moving on.'
"It certainly didn't escape me, my own past in relationship to that. I sit here in my office beneath the portrait of people who lived at a different time and who saw the ownership of people in a different way. You can't sit in an office and face that every day unless you really want to know, unless you really want to understand this dichotomy."
| A quote from Brown University president Dr. Ruth J. Simmons in Pam Belluck's New York Times article "Brown University to Examine Debt to Slave Trade"
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