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“Concentrate not on the eradication of evil, but on the cultivation of virtue.” (Page 99)”
― Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
― Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63
“For many Americans, especially non-Christians, the thought that Christian morality can be a useful guide to much of anything is risible, particularly since so many white evangelicals from 2016 forward chose to throw in their lot with a solipsistic American president who bullies, boasts, and sneers. Yet Lewis’s life suggests that religiously inspired activism may hold one of the best hopes for those who aim to make the life of the nation more just.
(Page 10)”
― His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
(Page 10)”
― His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
“The biblical imagery is part of the American tradition, no matter what your personal beliefs are. The Old Testament, the New Testament, it is all woven into who we are, Christian, Jew, or whatever. Religious metaphors and religious language form a kind of common bond in America—you can think of it either in literal or literary terms. Even if you are basically secular, the ideals and principles that come out of religion are essentially what we all should share: what is the right thing to do, what is just, what is fair.
(Page 203)”
― His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
(Page 203)”
― His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
“Historical time seems to have accelerated in America.
By the time children graduate from high school, the year in which they went into the first grade seems as remote as some prehistoric age of innocence: before the Fall. Once, the essential circumstances and assumptions of life changed so slowly that one could speak of may generations living and dying in the same age. Now events, non-events, fashions, and moods succeed one another so rapidly that an age can be over in half the length of a biological generation. Already, the twelve years from the inauguration of John Kennedy, in January 1961, to Richard Nixon’s second inauguration, in 1973, have taken on the shape and unity of an age. And the pace is unrelenting. As the United States celebrates its two-hundredth birthday, in 1976, the hopes that President Nixon expressed in his 1973 inaugural speech have been soaked in bitter irony by constitutional crisis and continuing national disunity.
from America in Our Time by Godfrey Hodgson (Page 3)”
― America in Our Time: From World War II to Nixon What Happened and Why
By the time children graduate from high school, the year in which they went into the first grade seems as remote as some prehistoric age of innocence: before the Fall. Once, the essential circumstances and assumptions of life changed so slowly that one could speak of may generations living and dying in the same age. Now events, non-events, fashions, and moods succeed one another so rapidly that an age can be over in half the length of a biological generation. Already, the twelve years from the inauguration of John Kennedy, in January 1961, to Richard Nixon’s second inauguration, in 1973, have taken on the shape and unity of an age. And the pace is unrelenting. As the United States celebrates its two-hundredth birthday, in 1976, the hopes that President Nixon expressed in his 1973 inaugural speech have been soaked in bitter irony by constitutional crisis and continuing national disunity.
from America in Our Time by Godfrey Hodgson (Page 3)”
― America in Our Time: From World War II to Nixon What Happened and Why
“By the time a settlement was reached, at the beginning of 1973, under terms no better than Washington could have had in 1963 or 1964 to 1965, fifty-eight thousand Americans, and between 1.5 and three million Vietnamese, lay dead.”
(Page 335)”
― Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam
(Page 335)”
― Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam
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