The Midnight Kingdom Quotes

“Now an America dominated by the rich and administered by trained and scientifically enlightened managers would take aim at its poor, its people of color, its disabled, and its women. Through forced sterilization, they would begin to weed out the so-called defectives in order to “save and perfect” the race.”
― Jared Yates Sexton, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis

“The battle between the North and South was also a clash of civilizations and economic destinies. Industrial forces conquered agrarian society, opening the door for massive, sweeping projects that saw railroads crisscross the continent, telegraph wires connect distant localities, and buildings dot the skylines of major cities. Wealth in the form of tax dollars would be redistributed from the population via the federal government to businesses and capitalists who made this transformation possible, establishing new, ultra-rich classes of citizens and corporations that came to overshadow government and dominate most facets of society.”
― Jared Yates Sexton, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis

“To the Herero, Trotha delivered a warning: “You have stolen, killed and owe white people . . . You Hereros must now leave this land it belongs to the Germans. If you do not do this I shall remove you with the big gun.”[11”
― Jared Yates Sexton, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis

“Media members and politicians were largely affluent and privileged and out of touch with what was happening on the ground in other parts of the country.”
― Jared Yates Sexton, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis