“It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.” PeopleThinkingAmericaBlackNaturalStruggleGrowing UpGrowingDignityBreakfastBlack PeopleCerealBreakfast Cereal Author:Eugene Jarecki
“I have criticisms of Ronald Reagan, but he lives in another universe from the kind of political theater that is represented by people, like Sarah Palin, who aren't really public servants.” PeopleKindPoliticalUniverseCriticismTheaterServantPalinPublic Servants Author:Eugene Jarecki
“It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.” PeopleWould BePartyTeaTea PartyFrivolousUninformed Author:Eugene Jarecki
“The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.” PeopleIdeasCountryWholeDemocracyPathFeetShapesLaborVoteOur CountryVigilance Author:Eugene Jarecki
“If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed in the prison industry would lose their jobs. That's what you're up against.” PeopleIfsJobsLosesFiveFourIndustryPrisonRateEmployedImprisonment Author:Eugene Jarecki
“Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their Gs and saying things in a folksy sort of way thats meant to capture the hearts of people. And its all fraud; its all stagecraft. And people are falling for a great deal of elite behavior in this country packaged as if its proletariat behavior.” PeopleIfsWayHeartCountryFallDealsBehaviorCaptureFraudElitesDroppingProletariatStagecraft Author:Eugene Jarecki
“There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan.” PeopleTryingWrapping Author:Eugene Jarecki
