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“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“While many Americans still believe that the Christian right is primarily concerned with “values,” leaders of the movement know it’s really about power.”
― Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism

“No one made a decision to militarize the police in America. The change has come slowly, the result of a generation of politicians and public officials fanning and exploiting public fears by declaring war on abstractions like crime, drug use, and terrorism. The resulting policies have made those war metaphors increasingly real.”
― Radley Balko, Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces

“In our own contemporary context of the rat race of anxiety, the celebration of Sabbath is an act of both resistance and alternative. It is resistance because it is a visible insistence that our lives are not defined by the production and consumption of commodity goods.”
― Walter Brueggemann, Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now