MJ

“Interestingly enough, the reason people still support the idea of communism is because they ignore or are ignorant to what we’re looking at in this book; how human behavior works - what motivates humans to do anything. People don’t just work hard for no reason; expending great effort with the promise of zero reward. In fact, they always, predictably, will do the opposite, all animals will, and starvation is absolutely guaranteed when a mechanism ensuring this lack of merited reward is implemented via communism.”
― Erik Lynch, HAIR TRIGGERS: HOW CANCEL CULTURE, FAKE OUTRAGE, AND WOKE OPPRESSION SHARE ONE HIDDEN CAUSE, AND THE ONLY REAL SOLUTION TO IT

“In the coming years the enslaved child, by then a man, would quote Auld’s words often. They had sparked the crucial understanding that reading and knowledge were the keys to his freedom. Young as he was, Freddy saw that ignorance was a weapon in the hands of the slaveholder, one that was far more dangerous than the whip.”
― Brian Kilmeade, The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul

“In an early draft of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson called slavery “a cruel war against human nature itself.”1 James Madison argued that “it would be wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.”2 Benjamin Franklin, a former slaveholder, described slavery as “an atrocious debasement of human nature.”3 But in the early days of the republic, slavery remained legal, the law of the land.”
― Brian Kilmeade, The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul

“We looked up to [Frederick Douglass] almost as we do to the memory of Abraham Lincoln. —Congressman George W. Murray”
― Brian Kilmeade, The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul