“A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them. This museum tells the truth that a country founded on the promise of liberty held millions in chains. That the price of our union was America’s original sin.”
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–Former President George W. Bush, September 2016 speech at the opening ceremony of the National Museum of African American History and Culture/Smithsonian.
