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Slavery has existed all over the planet for thousands of years, with black, white, yellow and other races being both slaves and enslavers. Does that mean that everybody ought to apologize to everybody else for what their ancestors did?

— Thomas Sowell, Dismantling America: And Other Controversial Essays (2010), p. 238

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