Robert Gowan

“These decisions were a heartbreaking catastrophe for Asians seeking citizenship. With pro–western European sentiment running high, the government began rescinding the naturalized citizenship of people of Asian descent who were already here. This amounted to an abandonment of people who had lived legally in the United States for most of their adult lives, as would echo a century later with immigrants crossing the southern U.S. border with Mexico.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil,”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king, and there ought to be no other.”
― Jon Meacham, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

“You have to do your best while you still have a chance. Life is short. You never know when the game, when your body, will be taken away from you. Don’t waste it!”
― Ryan Holiday, Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control