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Since this summer’s racial justice protests, OZY has dedicated our editorial mission to elevating compelling ideas from around the globe, including bold ideas for reparations, free prison phone calls and digital monuments for underrepresented heroes.

From Ozy

In 1995, state and federal legislation pledged to provide reparations.

We support HR40, which was the deal in the House for a commission to study reparations.

From Time

I think when most people talk about reparations, they’re talking about reparations for slavery, which is a form of reparations and certainly should be studied.

From Time

It’s hard for me to understand how and why people would be against a commission to study reparations.

From Time

As reparation, the court ordered $563 to be paid out to Yang and required the clinic to post an apology on its website.

Because of the obligation to make reparation that a crime against humanity always imposes.

Three years on, the demands for some kind of reparation have reached fever pitch.

She may be referring to the civil reparation fine, which matches the amount she wired.

The only reparation I want is for you to see rape as not my problem, but your problem.

The score of this work seemed like a sin, for which he must make reparation at all costs.

He was charged with having committed a wrong; but he was not asked to make reparation.

On her side, the baroness did everything in her power to give the utmost brilliancy to this solemn reparation.

The work of reparation followed, and the chapel was deemed sufficient till 1856, when it was entirely rebuilt and enlarged.

That was why, instinctively, she had put on her old homespun with a vague purpose of reparation to them.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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