Jonathan Gallo

“At times in its history, Christianity has been an instrument of repression. In our living memory, however, it has also been deployed as a means of liberation and progress.”
― Jon Meacham, His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope

“the most gorgeous thing on a human being. vulnerability.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“If you think nothing’s changed in the past 50 years, ask somebody who lived through the Selma or Chicago or Los Angeles of the 1950s. Ask the female CEO who once might have been assigned to the secretarial pool if nothing’s changed. Ask your gay friend if it’s easier to be out and proud in America now than it was thirty years ago. To deny this progress, this hard-won progress—our progress—would be to rob us of our own agency, our own capacity, our responsibility to do what we can to make America better.”
― Jon Meacham, His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope

“All men,” Homer wrote, “have need of the gods,” and the secular wish to banish religion from the public square is perennial but doomed—one might as well try to eliminate economics, geography, or partisanship as forces that shape our politics. The more productive task is to manage and marshal the effects of religious feeling on the broader republic.”
― Jon Meacham, His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope