Benedict

“Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“The most positive thing the Chinese authorities could say about the Americans was that they weren't the British.”
― Andrew Coe

“The new-found prosperity of American workers allowed them to buy goods which had previously been our of their reach. Peggy Terry overheard 'a woman saying on her bus that she hoped the war didn't end until she got her refrigerator paid for. An old man hit her over the head with an umbrella'.”
― Lizzie Collingham, The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food

“There will always be cruel people, no matter what kind of system we're living under. I'm not letting them stop me from wanting better for the rest of us.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Heavenly Tyrant