Daniel Muresan

“Several other punitive taxes were levied on England’s Jews, including a collective imposition of 66,000 marks in 1210. The law regarded the Jews as the king’s personal property—ultimately answerable to him for their lives, livelihoods, and freedom to work.”
― Dan Jones, Magna Carta: The Birth of Liberty

“He also brought home a new and abiding anger about race. “The white man in Europe or America is our number-one enemy,” he declared. “The white man crushes us underfoot while we teach our children about his civilization, his universal principles and noble objectives…. We are endowing our children with amazement and respect for the master who tramples our honor and enslaves us. Let us instead plant the seeds of hatred, disgust, and revenge in the souls of these children. Let us teach these children from the time their nails are soft that the white man is the enemy of humanity, and that they should destroy him at the first opportunity.”
― Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

“I have never admitted this to anyone, but I did not fight back when Hajji Salman or anyone else came to rape me. I just closed my eyes and wished for it to be over. People tell me all the time, “Oh, you are so brave, you are so strong,” and I hold my tongue, but I want to correct them and tell them that, while other girls punched and bit their attackers, I only cried. “I am not brave like them,” I want to say, but I worry what people would think of me. Sometimes it can feel like all that anyone is interested in when it comes to the genocide is the sexual abuse of Yazidi girls, and they want a story of a fight.”
― Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

“Queen Victoria’s government limited food aid, lest charity foster idleness and other vices in what was deemed an inferior race, as if evolution had taken a wrong turn with these backward Celts in contrast to the eminently superior Anglo-Saxons. English publications caricatured the Irish as apelike brawlers, drinkers, and layabouts, a race predisposed to superstition, savagery, and indolence.”
― Rory Carroll, There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History