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Book cover for Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again
The truth is that you are living in a system that is pouring acid on your attention every day, and then you are being told to blame yourself and to fiddle with your own habits while the world’s attention burns.
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Timothy Egan
“As W.E.B. Du Bois had written, behind 'the yelling, cruel-eyed demons who break, destroy, maim, lynch, and burn at the stake is a knot, large or small, of normal human beings, and these human beings at heart are desperately afraid of something.”
Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

“You cannot take your freedoms for granted. Just like generations who have come before you, you have to do your part to preserve and protect those freedoms.... You need to be preparing yourself to add your voice to our national conversation. You need to prepare yourself to be informed and engaged as a citizen, to serve and to lead, to stand up for our proud American values and to honor them in your daily lives.' - Michelle Obama”
Emily Amick, Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives

“There's a small handful of very wealthy and powerful people who actively strategize and spend a lot of money (numbers with multiple commas) to make sure that you ignore politics and neglect your privileges that come with being an American citizen.”
Emily Amick, Democracy in Retrograde: How to Make Changes Big and Small in Our Country and in Our Lives

Timothy Egan
“Isn't it strange that with all our educational advantages, noted the Hoosier writer Meredith Nicholson, so many Indiana citizens could be induced to pay $10 for the privilege of hating their neighbors and wearing a sheet?”
Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan
“When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do.”
Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

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