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title: "2 Modern Genocide Quotes by 1 author"
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> [The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz/the-objective-of-us-authorities-was-to-terminate-their-existence-as/)

[Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz/)

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> [“The objective of US colonialist authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples—not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide as contrasted with premodern instances of extreme violence that did not have the goal of extinction.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz/the-objective-of-us-colonialist-authorities-was-to-terminate-their/)

[Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz/)

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