Eileen

“Knowing how to love life is a necessity, Takeshi, and she needs to learn to trust people. Not to hate them, there’s no way out of hate.”
― Laura Imai Messina, The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

“Never in America’s history, though—however many sideburns Bowery barbers shaved or immigrants came ashore—had a losing presidential candidate argued that the whole nation had been swindled. When Abraham Lincoln won the presidency in 1860, his victory so outraged his opposition that an entire region of the country broke away. But in loss Stephen A. Douglas never claimed the election was “rigged.”
― Mark Bowden, The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It

“the party endorsed the “speedy construction” of the transcontinental railroad and a “liberal and just” policy of immigration given that “foreign immigration…has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to the nation.”
― Jon Meacham, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

“In the first half of the 60s, Presidents Kennedy and Johnson started moving the nation toward social justice, passing civil rights laws in opposition to the well-known racism of the Dixiecrats. That bunch got mighty irascible. The idea that they might have to abandon their racism, parochialism, anti-federalism, and ignorant religion to continue living in a nation of decent people just got their blood a’boilin’.”
― Scott McMurrey, Asshole Nation: Trump and the Rise of Scum America