If she had weathered being a single mother and losing the company and support of her best friends, these two events her senior year seemed, in hindsight, to change an essential piece of Amanda’s psyche.
“We must take our own side in this fight. We must be vigilant. We must persevere. And through it all, we must never, never cease to believe in the moral superiority of our own values—that we stand for truth against falsehood, freedom against tyranny, right against injustice, hope against despair . . . and that even though we will inevitably take losses and suffer setbacks, through it all, so long as people of goodwill and courage refuse to lose faith in the West, it will endure.”
― The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations
― The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations
“What an ingrate I would be to curse the fate that concludes the blessed life I’ve led.”
― The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations
― The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations
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