What Happened

by Hillary Rodham Clinton

As Yale history professor Timothy Snyder writes in his book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, “To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle.”

Just keep going. No feeling is final. —Rainer Maria Rilke

“If Trump had won by 3 million votes, lost electoral college by 80K, and Russia had hacked RNC, Republicans would have shut down America.”

Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be “damned if you do and damned if you don’t.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

When people start believing that all politicians are liars and crooks, the truly corrupt escape scrutiny, and cynicism grows.

With many of their voters getting their news from partisan sources, they had found a way to be consistently rewarded for creating the gridlock voters say they hate.

But the politics of cultural identity and resentment were overwhelming evidence, reason, and personal experience.

Never ever give up. You’re never too old to chase your dreams. And even if something looks like a solitary sport, it’s a team effort.

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you. —Carl Sandburg

It is hard to be a woman. You must think like a man, Act like a lady, Look like a young girl, And work like a horse.

I don’t want to be married just to be married. I can’t think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can’t talk to, or worse, someone I can’t be silent with. —Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Well-behaved women seldom make history. —Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. —Flannery O’Connor

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. —William Butler Yeats

When reason fails, the devil helps. —Fyodor Dostoevsky

The important thing to remember is that racial attitudes aren’t static and they don’t exist in a vacuum. As Christopher Parker, a political science professor at the University of Washington, has explained, the Obama years produced a backlash among white voters: “Every period of racial progress in this country is followed by a period of retrenchment. That’s what the 2016 election was about.” It’s like in physics—every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

If our expectations—if our fondest prayers and dreams are not realized—then we should all bear in mind that the greatest glory of living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall. —Nelson Mandela

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. —Henry James

Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what is still possible to do. —Pope John XXIII