“We lift our heads. Something has changed. Somewhere, at some time in the destruction, something awful happened. We stopped our forward move toward being humane, and are slipping quickly backward to the state of animals. The trains still run nearly on time, but we do not. What sustained our hearts and hopes is gone.”
― Jack Cady
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Image note: Cartoon by Mike Luckovich, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 20 March 2024
Cady, Jack. The American Writer: Shaping a Nation’s Mind. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
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