Sarah Vowell Quotes
In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.
Vowell, Sarah. Assassination Vacation. Simon & Schuster, 2005.
Abe Fortas was the last Jew to hold the so called “Jewish Seat” at the time but had resigned due to his closeness with LBJ. Ironically, Nixon who detested all minorities, chose a Jew, Henry Kissinger, as his closest confidant in the cabinet, and Kissinger and Nixon together achieved the greatest successes of the Nixon administration.
Odo of Chatillon-Sur-Marne. Westerners who look with horror at the religious promises of Islamic clerics that suicide bombers and other Muslims who die “defending Islam” will immediately pass to Paradise without the usual requirements and judgments which might deny admission because of previous sins. However, this is exactly what the Christians did in the Crusades as this well documented quotation demonstrates. To see the Islamic version, go to {617166}
Sarah Vowell is an American author, journalist, essayist, social commentator and actress. She has written seven nonfiction books on American history and culture. She was a contributing editor for the radio program This American Life on Public Radio International from 1996 to 2008, where she produced numerous commentaries and documentaries and toured the country in many of the program's live shows. She was also the voice of Violet Parr in the 2004 animated film The Incredibles and its 2018 sequel.
