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“Chava Levy, he thought, you are a hard fact to live with. All at once his throat filled with tears. Holding back a sob, he left his spot at the sanctuary door and returned to the street. He could no longer hear the chanting, but his mind took up the thread, leading him unwillingly through the rest of the service as he walked back to the Sheltering House.”
― Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni

“But belief in the right of another to hold and publicly advocate the contrary point of view without having his motives impugned and his character maligned seems to me to be a fundamental tenet of our political system. This tolerance and mutual respect is fundamental to democracy's survival.”
― Shirley Chisholm, The Good Fight

“If young people do not begin to make history, politicians of eternity and inevitability will destroy it. And to make history, young Americans will have to know some.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“A cyclical process of charm/no charm is the most likely scenario, as societies, similarly to human bodies, seek renewal and change.”
― Julia Sonnevend, Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics