Eli Saslow > Quotes

“The concept of civil discourse was the creation of a privileged class that didn’t want their lives disrupted by protests or emotional arguments. “Revolutions don’t happen at polite dinner parties,” James wrote,”
― Eli Saslow, Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

“This was the audience Derek had always been after: whites who naturally gravitated toward spending time with other whites and believed their values to be at the true core of America—people living out many of the tenets of white nationalism without even realizing it.”
― Eli Saslow, Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

“Intrinsically, white people in this country always expect that their interests should come first,” Derek told Allison that summer. “American history is so fundamentally based on white supremacy that it’s still the basis for most of our culture and our politics.”
― Eli Saslow, Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

“Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the country’s largest civil rights groups. During that spring of 2011, the SPLC was focused on what it called “explosive growth on the radical right.” For the first time, the SPLC counted more than 1,000 designated hate groups in the United States, and it described Stormfront as being at “the head of the monster.” The conspiracy-minded “Patriot movement” had doubled in size during the last year, and the number of domestic paramilitary groups had exploded from 78 before President Obama’s election to at least 330 active militias training for a potential war against their own federal government.”
― Eli Saslow, Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

“cliques,”
― Eli Saslow, Ten Letters: The American People in the Obama Years

“We’re all free to make our own choices in life. That’s the gift of being in this country. Voting is one of those choices. It’s a reflection of our values and a chance to improve our lives. It might sound corny, but it’s worthy of protecting.”
― Eli Saslow, Voices from the Pandemic: Americans Tell Their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience

“In this part of the country, in this time, no amount of sack lunches would ever be enough.”
― Eli Saslow, American Hunger: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Washington Post Series

“She emailed evidence about how blacks were twice as likely as whites to be suspended from school for the same behaviors; twice as likely to work for minimum wage in the same jobs; three times as likely to live in poverty; and five times as likely to go to prison. She provided readings from her Stigma and Prejudice class about how whites enjoyed an advantage over minorities in everything from lower prices at car dealerships to better fruits in their grocery stores. It was still very much a white person’s country, she told him, at the great expense of everyone else.”
― Eli Saslow, Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

“He felt both superior to his classmates and jealous of their relationships.”
― Eli Saslow, Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

“a quiet father of three who had moved his family from Illinois to the Washington suburbs to work for Obama, had been instructed to remain unbiased in picking the contents of the purple folder. The president had called on his second day in office to request ten letters, explaining that he wanted a representative sample: complimentary and critical, elegant and hurried.”
― Eli Saslow, Ten Letters: The American People in the Obama Years

“Why couldn’t they have paid us more? I hate that I needed that money so bad that I didn’t listen to my instincts.”
― Eli Saslow, Voices from the Pandemic: Americans Tell Their Stories of Crisis, Courage and Resilience