"Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat."

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Mignon McLaughlin

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“I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.”
“An actress reading a part for the first time tries many ways to say the same line before she settles into the one she believes suits the character and situation best. There's an aspect of the rehearsing actress about the girl on the verge of her teens. Playfully, she is starting to try out ways to be a grown-up person.”
“No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!”
“Music is the key to the female heart.”
“I have too great a soul to die like a criminal.”

Source : John Wilkes Booth (2000). “Right Or Wrong, God Judge Me: The Writings of John Wilkes Booth”, p.155, University of Illinois Press
“Well, I'm backed by a very rich Jew. Yeah!! Yes, I am! His Name is Jesus. I'm backed by Him.”
“What both the state and the capitalist economy oppose is an understanding of what might be called "the true nature of things" (using the phrase without metaphysical pretensions), especially injustices and exploitative practices.”
“Evolution has primarily been an attack on religion by militant atheists who wrap themselves in the mantle of science in an effort to refute all religious claims concerning a creator - an effort that has also often attempted to suppress all scientific criticisms of Darwin's work.”

Source : Rodney Stark (2015). “For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery”, p.176, Princeton University Press

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