"The new South Carolina was born in that moment, in that courtroom. Hatred and death didn’t bring it into being. The love of the living did."

"A chain reaction of grace started there, and its radiance shone forth from Charleston. The nation marveled: Why were they not seeing another Ferguson, another Baltimore? How can this black-white lovefest be?"

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