Francis S. Barry
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“In 2001, we had a president who said, ‘This is not about Islam — Islam is a religion of peace,’ and research does show that political leadership makes a difference. If political leaders are using hateful rhetoric, then we see a rise in hate crimes.”
― Back Roads and Better Angels: A Journey into the Heart of American Democracy
― Back Roads and Better Angels: A Journey into the Heart of American Democracy
“oversuspicious, overaggressive” terms — that the last days are near. “The paranoid spokesman sees the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms — he traffics in the birth and death of whole worlds, whole political orders, whole systems of human values,” Hofstadter wrote. “He is always manning the barricades of civilization. He constantly lives at a turning point: it is now or never in organizing resistance to conspiracy. Time is forever running short.”
― Back Roads and Better Angels: A Journey into the Heart of American Democracy
― Back Roads and Better Angels: A Journey into the Heart of American Democracy
“Lincoln’s longtime barber in Springfield, William de Fleurville, was a Haitian immigrant,”
― Back Roads and Better Angels: A Journey into the Heart of American Democracy
― Back Roads and Better Angels: A Journey into the Heart of American Democracy
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