Marlena

“Everywhere on this day, the after-war continues, as eternally as war itself,”
― David Finkel, Thank You for Your Service

“In interviews and impassioned speeches on university campuses all across the country, Frank Herbert warned young people not to trust government, telling them that the American founding fathers had understood this and had attempted to establish safeguards in the Constitution.”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection: Books 1-3

“For that particular community, for my community, the message has long been clear: The Civil War is a story for white people—acted out by white people, on white people’s terms—in which blacks feature strictly as stock characters and props. We are invited to listen, but never to truly join the narrative, for to speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“To ignore the fact that one of the oldest republics in the world was erected on a foundation of white supremacy, to pretend that the problems of a dual society are the same as the problems of unregulated capitalism, is to cover the sin of national plunder with the sin of national lying.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy