Jacob Schlueb

“In all of these ways, Trump was encouraging ethnic factionalism. It's exactly what Tudjman did when, as part of his plan to become president of an independent Croatia, he began to consolidate Croatians into an ethnic faction in 1989. It is what Hutu extremists did when they characterized Tutsis as cockroaches and Hutus as the chosen people. It's what President Henri Konan Bedie did in the Ivory Coast in the mid -1990s, when he reversed his pro-immigrant policies to gain more votes from native citizens. And it is what Modi in India still does, when he promotes an Indian primarily for Hindus.”
― Barbara F Walter

“Going out in the street with nothing but a cellphone is an act of optimism. It means that citizens still believe that the system will correct itself.”
― barbara F walter

“Learning about how god became a single man, regardless of whether or not these gods exist, helps us understand what it means to be a woman in the world, as our gods are reflections of our society at the time.”
― Brittney Hartley, No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required

“The sad reality of human history thus far is that when we try to go back to, or preserve, more communal ways of living, the cult that produces the most dogmatic, individualistic, egocentric, us versus them, "only our kind go to heaven" idea wins the war. It is something we will have to outgrow after a collective recognition that this is not the way.”
― Brittney Hartley, No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required