Category: journalist
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journalist, Pulitzer Prize, Quotes for Now
In Memory: “In times to come, when we are all gone, people not yet born will walk in the sunshine of their own days because of what women and men did at this hour to feed the sick, to heal and comfort.”
“In the age of minority rule, a Supreme Court justice appointed by a president who got fewer votes is confirmed by a party in the Senate that got fewer votes, to validate policies opposed by most Americans.”
”From my viewpoint, the value of the worn paperback with your initial impressions in the margins of a book you love is far more valuable than the first edition with the good dust jacket.”
“the tax code is built to reward us for having all of these things without doing much to help us attain them. Where are the loopholes for people who aren’t already rich”’
“men cannot for long tolerate a sense of spiritual meaninglessness [or] for long accept a society in which power, privilege, and property are not distributed according to some morally meaningful criteria.”
“we’re still losing around 600 Americans per day — that is, we’re experiencing the equivalent of six 9/11s every month”
1944: “when fascism comes it will not be in the form of an anti-American movement… It will appear rather in the luminous robes of flaming patriotism; it will…”
“In the face of mass anger over police brutality, they’ve effectively said So what?” / “who has the right to hold the police to account?”
Art of Quotation 
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