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“Criticizing the system that claims to punish you for your thoughts is the first step against totalitarianism.”
― Andrew L. Seidel, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American

“STEPHEN STARTED AT SANTA MONICA High School in 1999. His father would refinance the house three times in the next four years.1 (His younger brother, Jacob, would go to private school.) The year before, Santa Monica had experienced eight gang-related shootings within a couple of weeks, resulting in five deaths, including one across from the high school. The high school was experiencing what administrators called “a two-school phenomenon.”
― Jean Guerrero, Hate Monger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda

“This was to emasculate Lenin’s accusation in the act of pleading guilty to it.”
― Robert C. Tucker, Stalin as Revolutionary: A Study in History and Personality, 1879-1929

“Trotsky, in whose writings we find very many valuable observations on Stalin as an individual, took the position that he was important not in his own right but only as a personification of the Thermidorean bureaucracy. As he summed up his view in The Revolution Betrayed, “Stalin is the personification of the bureaucracy. That is the substance of his political personality.”
― Robert C. Tucker, Stalin as Revolutionary: A Study in History and Personality, 1879-1929