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“In The Ethics of Our Fathers, a book of the Talmud, Rabbi Tarfon says: "You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it." By the end, this is how I came to feel about my work. Dismantling the rise of fascism is best not left to lone vigilantes, nor to the punitive mechanisms of the state, but to people working together to stamp out hate wherever it arises. In the meantime, I cook like a Jew: paprika, dill, onions, garlic, warm broth, and company. The herring is optional, but love is not optional. It is what we must marshal to break the back of the beast. To do so, we must break bread together: a prickle of salt, a pat of melting butter, a bite, a kiss, a homily in the mouth about what's worth fighting for.”

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Book:Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

Source: Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

“We tend to like our noble lawbreakers to be comfortably in the past, where time and death have sanitized them into heroes, and to suffer those who struggle against injustice in the present only grudgingly, if at all.”

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Book:Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

Source: Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

“Despite the fact that [...] 71% of murders related to extremism in the United States between 2008 and 2017 were committed by members of far-right or white-supremacist movements, federal authorities have maintained a sustained myopia toward white terror.”

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Book:Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

Source: Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

“It is the nature of reactionary movements to claim that their power is negligible until it is absolute. It is the nature of right-wing American Christianity to nurture a martyrdom that was never theirs, and never will be theirs, and use its sentiments to feed their animus.”

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Book:Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America

Source: Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America

“It's a constant in this country that the people who make the laws love to talk about God when they take things from you.”

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Book:Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America

Source: Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America

“The worst people are still people; their humanity is impossible to disregard, but it does not absolve them. If anything, it makes their choices more abhorrent, surrounded, as they are, by the banality of a life indistinguishable from other lives.”

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Book:Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

Source: Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

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