Josiah Strong Quotes
As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.
Strong, Josiah. Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis. The Baker and Taylor Co., 1885, p. 131.
Nagin was being aggressively questioned about why New Orleans was not rebuilt from the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. He gave as an example the fact that the World Trade Center site in New York had not even started with any rehabilitation. The politics of rebuilding after a catastrophe have become very complicated regardless of the location. Many in New York found the wording “hole in the ground” insensitive as 2,000 people had died on the site. The reality is that both rebuilding efforts were severely hampered by political issues: In the case of New York, the kind of memorial that would be appropriate for “hallowed ground.” In New Orleans, the issues of rebuilding in risky area vs more protection was debated as well as the racial effect where New Orleans had been a majority Black city before but depending on how it was rebuilt might not be after.
Referring to the Democratic Party losses in the 2024 election.
Josiah Strong was an American Protestant clergyman, organizer, editor and author. He was a leader of the Social Gospel movement, calling for social justice and combating social evils. He supported missionary work so that all races could be improved and uplifted and thereby brought to Christ. He is controversial, however, due to his beliefs about race and methods of converting people to Christianity. In his 1885 book Our Country, Strong argued that Anglo-Saxons are a superior race who must "Christianize and civilize" the "savage" races, which he argued would be good for the American economy and the "lesser races".
