Sabaa Tahir Quotes
People could be really horrible, you know? They would threaten my parents.
Tahir, Sabaa. Interview by David Greene. "A Fantasy Novel Inspired by Real-World Horrors." NPR, 26 Aug. 2015.
La Guardia was a very short man and he had gone up to the much larger “poll watcher” and ripped his official button off his coat. The Tammany Hall political machine would appoint thugs as poll watchers to intimidate the voters. If the poll watcher was an "official" voters thought that they might have access to the ballot information and know whether or not they voted for the machine candidates. Their presense was often sufficient intimidation to assure party line voting by most people.
Sabaa Tahir is a Pakistani-American young adult novelist best known for her New York Times-bestselling An Ember in the Ashes and its sequels.