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  • Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.

    Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.33, Penguin
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