Peyton

“The freedoms that we cherish are meaningless without our commitments to one another: to civil discourse, to actively educating the next generation, to welcoming strangers, to loving our neighbors. The beginning of freedom is the beginning of responsibility. Our night of vigil has already begun.”
― Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

“America is in the hearts of men that died for freedom; it is also in the eyes of men that are building a new world.”
― Carlos Bulosan, America Is in the Heart: A Personal History

“The more we know about the past, the more we know what is not true about the present”
― Isaiah Berlin

“Since ancient times, in every place they have ever lived, Jews have represented the frightening prospect of freedom. As long as Jews existed in any society, there was evidence that it in fact wasn't necessary to believe what everyone else believed, that those who disagreed with their neighbors could survive and even flourish against all odds. The Jews' continued distinctiveness, despite overwhelming pressure to become like everyone else, demonstrated their enormous effort to cultivate that freedom: devotion to law and story, deep literacy, and an absolute obsessiveness about consciously transmitting those values between generations. The existence of Jews in any society is a reminder that freedom is possible, but only with responsibility—and that freedom without responsibility is no freedom at all.”
― Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present