Eileen

“It may be laid down as an axiom, that whenever a political party forecloses discussion on any subject, but more especially on a great moral issue, it is not only on the wrong side of that issue, but has an intuitive perception of that fact.”
― Thomas Mealey Harris, Assassination of Lincoln: a History of the Great Conspiracy

“Most of the time, I’m kind of numb,” she replied. “You know, I think every mom out there can relate to the fact of how long it takes to create a baby, those nine months that you watch every ultrasound and every heartbeat. And it takes nine months to create a human being, and it takes seconds for an AR-15 to take that away from the surface of this Earth. And it wasn’t just my son. It was 25 other souls that left this Earth that day because that weapon fell into the hands of a tormented soul. And that haunts me.”
― Elizabeth Williamson, Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth

“Lincoln replied, “Yes, I have; and I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
― Jon Meacham, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

“In the first half of the 60s, Presidents Kennedy and Johnson started moving the nation toward social justice, passing civil rights laws in opposition to the well-known racism of the Dixiecrats. That bunch got mighty irascible. The idea that they might have to abandon their racism, parochialism, anti-federalism, and ignorant religion to continue living in a nation of decent people just got their blood a’boilin’.”
― Scott McMurrey, Asshole Nation: Trump and the Rise of Scum America