Amy Waldman Quotes
While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated.
Waldman, Amy. Interview by BookBrowse. BookBrowse, Aug. 2011.
Dr. Minton was one of the few physicians in Texas who performed abortions. He gets constant death threats by people who claim to be devout Christians. He carries and sleeps with a handgun, and knows how to use it.
Goldwater had a Southern Strategy of appealing to the White backlash vote, but was not himself a racist. When he saw this film he not only criticized it but threatened to denounce it if it was aired by the Citizens for Goldwater-Miller staff. The film was no longer shown. The film was sponsored by Mothers for a Moral America, a division of Citizens for Goldwater-Miller, who were furious.
Michener had chaired a county campaign committee and discovered that most great amount of the virulent, anti-Catholic, messages and materials that impinged on the campaign were tax-exempt religious publications and church newsletters.
First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, 1874-1944, invited Jessie DePriest the Black wife of a Congressman to tea at the White House. No Black woman had ever been there socially before. This was a typical Southern reaction. The Texas State legislature actually passed a resolution chastising the First Lady—the only such action in American history.
This was one of the strongest statements of religious freedom in America prior to the Bill of Rights which came over a decade later.
In the middle of 2010, this organization was running public utility bus ads in major American cities.
Amy Waldman is an American author and journalist. She was a reporter with The New York Times for a total of eight years. For three years she was co-chief of the South Asia bureau. Before that she covered Harlem, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and the aftermath of 9/11.
