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“We are so used to the idea that the First Amendment is for liberals, and that it is our bulwark against fascist movements, that we fail to notice when it has been turned around and used as a wedge instead.”
― Katherine Stewart, The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children

“Most, perhaps all, of us were from middle-class families and trying to pay our way through college. Waitresses could clear from $1,000 to $1,500 for the summer, bellhops $800 or so. Now this may not seem like a lot, but at the University of Illinois in the sixties my tuition for a semester was—parents, do not commit hara-kiri—$135.”
― Bill Geist, Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America

“But what I can tell you is this: when it comes to performance standards, It’s not what you preach, it’s what you tolerate.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

“Pray for our CEF worker who has been accused of inappropriate behavior with the children,” she finally says in an agitated voice. “If these accusations are allowed to continue, Lord, it could devastate the man, and his family, and the ministry.”
― Katherine Stewart, The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children