John

“Whenever American farmers leave their plows en masse and race threateningly after the regular politicians they are called wild jackasses, or worse. An agrarian tide is said to be rising, or a fire sweeping the prairies, or a farm rebellion in progress. Mixing of the burning and flowing and rebelling metaphors is hard to avoid...The hoofprints of the wild jackasses are on our democracy, and its configuration is the better for them.”
― Dale Kramer

“If things keep going the way they have in recent years, acrimonious historical debate may soon rival kudzu for prominence on the southern landscape”
― Charles B. Dew, Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War

“We stood by and allowed what happened to the Great Plains a century ago, the destruction of one of the ecological wonders of the world. In modern America, we need to see this with clear eyes, and soberly, so that we understand well that the flyover country of our own time derives much of its forgettability from being a slate wiped almost clean of its original figures.”
― Dan Flores, American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains

“Neutrality is a luxury of the comfortable; in these uncomfortable times, our students and our academic communities need more from us.”
― Kevin M. Gannon, Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto