Daniel Brook > Quotes

“Traveling the globe”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“vaunted”
― Daniel Brook, The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction

“polyglot”
― Daniel Brook, The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction

“opposition in the press, for the first time in American history Congress overrode a presidential veto on a major piece of legislation. On April 9, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 became law. In May, for good measure, Congress finished its amended Freedmen’s Bureau bill and passed it over Johnson’s veto.”
― Daniel Brook, The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction

“Born in Berlin in 1910”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“As with sexuality, the categories tell us more about the categorizer than the categorized. The racists have not discovered race; they have invented race." -Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“Magnus saw that when it came to achieving progress on gay rights”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“Nazism, with its fascist alchemy, transformed class tensions into racial tensions. To turn a social democracy into a fascist dictatorship, Magnus explained, the Nazis needed race. How else to replace a politics of universal rights with a politics of us and them?”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“no group defended the liberal creed of free inquiry”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“To Magnus”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“In his Shanghai lectures no less than his talks in segregated America, Magnus “made no secret of the fact that as a biologist I can never approve the drawing of the ‘colour line.”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“Today we base the demand for the greatest possible freedom for the greatest possible number of people on diversity.”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“the attack had really begun on the night of May 5 when the Nazis posted a guard in front of the institute. Early the next morning, the Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger, a Nazi-aligned newspaper, announced that this would be the day the libraries would be cleansed of “books of un-German spirit.” This nationwide campaign, it explained, would begin with the most reviled trove of all: the archive of the Institute for Sexual Science.”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“Magnus noted sadly, the “pent-up emotions” of trans individuals who face barriers to acceptance in their wider society, led to elevated levels of mental illness.”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“largest city, the federal military authorities stationed in Memphis sat on their hands. By the massacre’s end, at least forty-eight African-American men, women, and children were dead and five black women raped; only two whites died. To Northerners reading the news from Tennessee, the riot made plain Johnson’s complicity in the white South enforcing its own race-based mob rule.”
― Daniel Brook, The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction

“We are fighting for the most precious possessions of men and women—justice, freedom, and love. Our enemies are powerful, but they are not invincible.”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“social categories were arbitrary. They were unintentional commentaries on the observers rather than impartial descriptions of the observed.”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“It is surely obvious,” Magnus wrote”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“As a believer in the concept of hybrid vigor”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin

“out Johnson could do nothing beyond publicly register his opposition.”
― Daniel Brook, The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction

“June, Congress drew up and quickly passed the Fourteenth Amendment that would, once ratified by three-fourths of the states, safeguard the equal-citizenship provisions of the new Civil Rights Act by enshrining them in the Constitution. The amendment would protect the Civil Rights Act from the Supreme Court by invalidating the Dred Scott ruling that African-Americans were not citizens. Since the Constitution assigns the president no role in the amendment”
― Daniel Brook, The Accident of Color: A Story of Race in Reconstruction

“For the fourth installment”
― Daniel Brook, The Einstein of Sex: Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, Visionary of Weimar Berlin