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“It was all a hyperinflated display of presumed expertise on the part of men who were not experts, preaching the lessons of a science that was not science, justifying prejudices that were too ugly to be acknowledged.”
― The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
― The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
“Real fans are evangelists, not gatekeepers.”
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“We never made caring for the most vulnerable of our people part of American culture.”
― The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City
― The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City
“The real problem of the masses was not the barbarism of the Nationalists but how to get along without the two extra groschen that the government had deducted from their income.”
― The Oppermanns
― The Oppermanns
“There is nothing the rabble fears more than intelligence. If they understood what is truly terrifying, they would fear ignorance.”
― The Oppermanns
― The Oppermanns
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