Jacqueline

“President Johnson and others would turn out to be wrong about who would come through the door. The law—actually, a series of amendments to the McCarran-Walter Act—would unleash a tide of immigration from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and set in motion a demographic transformation of the country that is still unfolding today. By 1970, the Chinese population in the United States would grow to more than 430,000 people, almost double what it had been a decade earlier. The number would continue to double every ten years until the end of the century. Since 1965, about a quarter of immigrants to the United States have been Asian. They have become the country’s fastest-growing ethnic population. Today, there are more than five million Chinese Americans in the United States.”
― Michael Luo, Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Divine.”
― Barbara Ann Brennan, Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field

“The nation had turned its back on the sacrifices of these men and had “repressed the details of the shameful abandonment of those goals for which they had given their lives.” That betrayal of both the ideal of democracy and the memory of those who gave their lives for it haunted the country. It was a denial of the past, of history and its relevance to American life and its significance to any robust sense of American individuality and identity. “A discontinuity had been”
― Eddie S. Glaude Jr., We Are the Leaders We Have Been Looking For