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Skinner shared how he came to worship an elite White Jesus Christ, who cleaned people up through “rules and regulations,” a savior who prefigured Richard Nixon’s vision of law and order. But one day, Skinner realized that he’d gotten Jesus wrong. Jesus wasn’t in the Rotary Club and he wasn’t a policeman. Jesus was a “radical revolutionary, with hai
... See moreIbram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
King and his colleagues in the movement understood, and they had launched a voting-rights drive in Alabama in the first days of 1965. The flashpoint: Selma, Alabama, the seat of Dallas County. On Sunday, March 7, 1965, a voting-rights march from Selma to Montgomery had barely begun when Alabama state troopers charged a line of nonviolent demonstrat
... See moreJon Meacham • The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
Donald Trump had taken full page ads in several newspapers urging the death penalty, which helped whip up public opinion.
Sara Davidson • The Didion Files
of both “Sharon the Murderer” and “Begin the Murderer.”
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
I believe that much of today's crime is also a function of space. We cannot pack a dozen young rats in a concrete shoebox without their attacking and killing each other. We cannot pack millions of our young into the concrete boxes of our cities without expecting them to lash out in pain and anger and violence.
GERRY SPENCE • HOW TO ARGUE AND WIN EVERY TIME
Many of the state’s conservative business leaders had, once the excitement of the campaign had faded, reached the same conclusion as Busby, and realized they had been unjust to Stevenson, and they asked him to run—ample financing assured—for Tom Connally’s Senate seat in 1952; he would, after all, be only sixty-four years old, they pointed out. He
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson II
The fact that he was not arrested sooner was due to his itinerant style, and to his concentration on villages rather than major cities, not to anything bland or unprovocative about the content of his message.
N. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
But both courts and Legislature understood the situation; before both courts and Legislature, Moses stood stripped of all defenses and, it seemed in February 1925, both courts and Legislature would now step in and rectify the situation, the courts by affording redress to the individuals injured by his actions, the Legislature by insuring that he ne
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