“It is,” she wrote, “an unfortunate trait in the human character to assail or asperse others engaged in the performance of humanitarian acts.”
― Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
― Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
“Indeed, according to one study, right-wing extremism was responsible for 76 percent of all extremist murders in the United States from 2009 to 2019. (Islamic extremists were responsible for 20 percent, and left-wing and Black nationalists 3 percent.) A comprehensive study of the years 2000 to 2018 by Rachel”
― Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
― Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
“old question that we are asking ourselves fifty years later: how far can we go in the rightful defense of our Western values without abandoning them along the way?”
― The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
― The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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