Elijah Dougherty

“It is the flight from us that sent them sprawling into the subdivided woods. And the methods of transport through these new subdivisions, across the sprawl, is the automobile, the noose around the neck of the earth, and ultimately, the Dreamers themselves.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“But to say this -- that mainstream liberal parties will never develop a moral compass until they are punished for not having one -- produces a level of antagonistic vitriol unmatched in almost any other context. Waves of progressives will take time out from pasting MY RELIGION IS LOVE stickers to the bumpers of their Teslas to let you know that advocating this position makes you the enemy, that they hope you're happy when Trump takes power and makes your life even more miserable, that you should just go back to where you came from.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“The alternative -- that millions of Americans want desperately for people who don't look and live and believe the way they do to suffer without end -- was too unpleasant to consider, too much an indictment of something bigger than one man's campaign. Even years later ... there is great care on the part of many mainstream liberals to focus on the destructive potential of Trump as a singular entity, a freak accident.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This