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"America's earliest religious refugees did not, in turn, practice tolerance; the Puritan colony quashed dissent with particular zeal, banning Catholics and hanging Quakers. This irony persists today - the 'them' attacking us on Fox news is as often Big Government as it is immigrants."

"I wonder now how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world - at least in our minds - and thought of all children, everywhere, as our own.

Then we could never drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Or Napalm on Vietnam. Or, indeed, wage war on anywhere, because wars - especially in our time - are always wars against children."

"In 1990, the average pay of the CEOs of the 500 largest corporations was 84 times that of the average worker.

By 1999, it was 475 times the average worker's pay."

(Regarding the 1960s and 70s)
"Never in American history had more movements for change been concentrated in so short a span of years.
But the system, in the course of two centuries, had learned a good deal about the control of people. In the mid-70s, it went to work."

"Traditional education became to be reexamined; the schools had taught whole generations the value of patriotism, of obeying authority, + had perpetuated ignorance -even contempt- for people of other nations, races, Native Americans, women."

Gripping!!!
I've been looking forward to this one for my 50min work commute, and a bit during tedious/mindless work periods.

Workday read while staining a 13x26 gazebo.

Jimenez's writing and her characters are both charming me successfully.

"Together we bargain, alone we beg. That's the power of unions."

"Even in 2024, in counties that voted 95% for Trump, the people voted against private school vouchers.

Red, blue, and inbetween: the American people know: When we strengthen public schools, we strengthen opportunity for all."

"People are often attracted to authoritarian ideas because they are bothered by complexity."

-Anne Applebaum

This is cuuuuute👀

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"A notoriously Southern phenomenon now spread like honey over everything. Ask the time and folks just looked up at the sky, mumbling "quarter till," because gone was the appraiser of hours into wages."

Whewwwww👀🔥

In Sister Outside, Audre Lorde wrote:
"As women we have been taught either to ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion, rather than as forces for change. Without community there is no liberation."

"The Sunday magazine This Week advised its female readera; a college education 'skyrockets your chances of becoming an old maid.'

Advertisers reversed their wartime message - that women could work + enjoy a family life - claimed now that women must choose, + choose only home."

"Then as now, late-Victorian religious + political leaders accused women who postponed childbearing of triggering a 'race suicide' that endangered (white) America's future; they were, in the words of president Theodore Roosevelt, 'criminals against the race' + 'objects of contemptuous abhorrence by healthy people.' Married women who demanded rights were charged, then as now, with creating a 'crisis of the family.'"

"This is the goal of a white supremacist social order: to mark Black bodies as useless, while simultaneously exploiting them for labor, culture, and energy."