Masha Gessen Quotes
Hate has a great unifying potential.
Gessen, Masha. The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia. Riverhead Books, 2017.
Resentment over the Southern loss of the Civil War did not dissipate. Hatred and anger were taken out on any Northerner who appeared. The local politicians not only didn’t keep the peace but they were the instigators of much of the violence and made sure that no Southerner would be convicted for violence against a Northerner. The President however, a Southerner himself, vacillated as to how to deal with the situation and lawlessness over reconstruction and race issues was encouraged throughout the South leading to almost 100 years of lynchings, Ku Klux Klan and other violence and intimidation.
During her adult life, she was the de facto ruler of China. Officials then did little or nothing to curb the attacks on the various foreigners and foreign power that occupied and exercised some control over parts of China. The Government itself could do little as it was too weak militarily with many key officials bribed by the foreign powers. The Boxers were a grass roots xenophobic movement devoted to getting the foreign powers out of China by violence.
Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist, author, translator and activist who has been an outspoken critic of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, and the former President of the United States, Donald Trump.
