The Small and the Mighty Quotes

“I have no fear, Dear Heart, for Life and Death are one, and God is all in all. My only real concern to remain in this body is to spare you grief and pain and loneliness. But I should not leave you comfortless. I would come to you as my mother comes to me in my best moments when my heart is open to her. The breezes come in off the meadow where the song sparrows are piping. Sure God is love.”[16]”
― Sharon McMahon, The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History

“She took Christianity to mean for someone to be Christ-like if they were a Christian. And I joke with my students that there are people who go to the church, to the mosque, to the temple, and there are those that follow their religion. And those are not necessarily the same people.”
― Sharon McMahon, The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History

“Norm influenced presidential policy post-9/11. Bush said that “one of the important things about Norm’s experience is that it reminds us that sometimes we lose our soul as a nation. That the notion of all equal under God sometimes disappears.”
― Sharon McMahon, The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History

“First, there was no one in the world engaged in chattel slavery like the United States, where people were kidnapped and held permanently, with no hope of escaping the condition. That was not the cultural norm in other parts of the world. Nor was the idea that all subsequent generations of children “followed the mother,” being born into permanent enslavement.”
― Sharon McMahon, The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History

“Perhaps sensing his time was near, Hamilton asked for the minister of the church to which his family belonged to bring him Communion. But Reverend Bishop Moore refused. He didn’t approve of dueling, and he didn’t believe Hamilton to be a good enough Christian to deserve the Episcopal rites.”
― Sharon McMahon, The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History

“So no, America is not “the worst it’s ever been” today, despite what some news anchors might be trying to convince you of, because if they can make you afraid, they can gain your attention and your money. Has anyone been beaten half to death on the floor of the Senate over the topic of whether it’s cool to enslave people this week? No? Okay.”
― Sharon McMahon, The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History