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“Money is beautiful, because it is a liberation … Wanting to go and die in Peking and not being able to is something that weighs on me like the idea of some imminent cataclysm.”
― The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
― The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition
“Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, delivered the keynote. “Woe to our society if to be human becomes a heroic act,” he said.”
― Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
― Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
“TPS holders would become permanently stuck with a status that was meant to be provisional. Republican and Democratic administrations found it easier to renew their TPS status every two years than to create an actual route to citizenship for those who had built lives in the US over decades.”
― Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
― Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
“On August 22, 1996, Clinton signed the bill into law, but at a press conference several days earlier he had promised to find some way to eventually undo the damage. “I am deeply disappointed that the congressional leadership insisted on attaching to this extraordinarily important bill a provision that will hurt legal immigrants in America,” he had said from a dais at the White House. “This provision has nothing to do with welfare reform; it is simply a budget-saving measure, and it is not right.”
― Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
― Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
“voters who switched parties to vote for Trump were motivated by the possibility of a fall in social status: “In short, they feared that they were in the process of losing their previously privileged positions.” Instead of taking rising college enrollment rates by marginalized people as a sign that they would need to improve their own skills, they voted based on a fear they were losing their privilege and thus their positions.”
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
― Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Cristal’s 2025 Year in Books
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