Ann Rinaldi Quotes
I will stand by you. You must not be afraid. This is a brave land, Susanna, founded by brave people who never shrank from their duty or their vision of freedom. But this land has a future only if each of us stands up for what is right when it is given us to do so.
Rinaldi, Ann. A Break with Charity. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.
Goebel, a state senator, had campaigned against the railroad and corporate trusts. He was the first candidate in Kentucky to openly campaign for the Black vote and he, even though a Democrat, got it. The railroads and trusts campaigned hard for the incumbent. A very close election produced a crisis when the incumbent Republican Governor refused to give up the Statehouse and armed men converged on the capital. Somehow Goebel was shot and mortally wounded.
Ann Rinaldi is an American young adult fiction author. She is best known for her historical fiction, including In My Father's House, The Last Silk Dress, An Acquaintance with Darkness, A Break with Charity, Numbering All The Bones and Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons. She has written a total of more than forty novels, eight of which were listed as notable by the ALA. In 2000, Wolf by the Ears was listed as one of the best novels of the preceding twenty-five years, and later of the last one hundred years. She also writes for the Dear America series.
