Bill Hughes

“It is true that he found in the German people, as a mysterious Providence and centuries of experience had molded them up to that time, a natural instrument which he was able to shape to his own sinister ends. But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect, a soaring imagination and—until toward the end, when, drunk with power and success, he overreached himself—an amazing capacity to size up people and situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich.”
― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

“Uncovering history can be like walking up to a log in the woods that looks usable on the surface until you kick it over and find the underside rotten. We can trace much of today’s ideological decay to a seemingly benign US history that was in fact used to deny reparative justice and justify the segregation of Black people.”
― Jermaine Fowler, The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth

“These concerns operate from an assumption that racial tensions come from discussion, rather than the conditions these discussions arise in response to. Instead of telling the truth about the foundations of racial power and how it exists in the present, young minds are taught a comforting narrative of national innocence.”
― Jermaine Fowler, The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth

“The optimism of the early 1990s died on the killing fields of Kosovo, in the ruins of the World Trade Center and in the valleys of Afghanistan.”
― N.T. Wright, Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies