Rising Out of Hatred Quotes

“The concept of civil discourse was the creation of a privileged class that didn’t want their lives disrupted by protests or emotional arguments. “Revolutions don’t happen at polite dinner parties,” James wrote,”
― Eli Saslow, Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

“Intrinsically, white people in this country always expect that their interests should come first,” Derek told Allison that summer. “American history is so fundamentally based on white supremacy that it’s still the basis for most of our culture and our politics.”
― Eli Saslow, Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

“This was the audience Derek had always been after: whites who naturally gravitated toward spending time with other whites and believed their values to be at the true core of America—people living out many of the tenets of white nationalism without even realizing it.”
― Eli Saslow, Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

“She emailed evidence about how blacks were twice as likely as whites to be suspended from school for the same behaviors; twice as likely to work for minimum wage in the same jobs; three times as likely to live in poverty; and five times as likely to go to prison. She provided readings from her Stigma and Prejudice class about how whites enjoyed an advantage over minorities in everything from lower prices at car dealerships to better fruits in their grocery stores. It was still very much a white person’s country, she told him, at the great expense of everyone else.”
― Eli Saslow, Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

“Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the country’s largest civil rights groups. During that spring of 2011, the SPLC was focused on what it called “explosive growth on the radical right.” For the first time, the SPLC counted more than 1,000 designated hate groups in the United States, and it described Stormfront as being at “the head of the monster.” The conspiracy-minded “Patriot movement” had doubled in size during the last year, and the number of domestic paramilitary groups had exploded from 78 before President Obama’s election to at least 330 active militias training for a potential war against their own federal government.”
― Eli Saslow, Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

“He felt both superior to his classmates and jealous of their relationships.”
― Eli Saslow, Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist