Dreams Of My Mothers Quotes

“Loyalties of professional sports teams mystified him; they were rotating groups of paid professionals, usually with no ties other than their employment contract to the local area. One might as well feel loyalty to and cheer on the construction crew repairing the state highway nearest one's town”
― Joel L.A. Peterson, Dreams Of My Mothers: A Story Of Love Transcendent

“Being American isn’t being white or Western. It is about freely embracing a set of ideals and beliefs. And it is these shared ideals and beliefs, which are not coerced, and the shared efforts in striving to perfect their realization that binds us as a people and as a nation. Of course there are plenty of arguments and disagreements among Americans. But what was drilled into me at the Naval Academy was that I don’t have to agree with what someone else says. Hell! I don’t even have to like it! I have the freedom to even hate what someone says and maybe even hate the person for saying and thinking it. But what makes us American is that we are willing to die defending the right of that person to think and say that which we may disagree with or even”
― Joel L.A. Peterson, Dreams of My Mothers: A Story of Love Transcendent

“Noah, for all of human history, for millions of years, starting from even before we were exactly fully ‘human,’ a number of things were very tightly linked with each other. Location—call it geography—physical appearance or attributes—call it race—language and culture—all these things—were very closely linked and tied to each other. People were born, lived, and died within a very small, fixed area. So, if someone looked a certain way or talked a certain language or was from a certain area, then by knowing just that one fact, you could deduce almost everything about them. This was true until very recently in human history. In fact until the United States of America occurred. We were the first nation that was made up of everyone coming from somewhere else originally.”
― Joel L.A. Peterson, Dreams of My Mothers: A Story of Love Transcendent