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“Being poor is a full-time job, it really is.”
― David K. Shipler, The Working Poor: Invisible in America

“The day I arrived in Yakutsk with my colleague Peter Osnos of The Washington Post, it was 46 below. When our plane landed, the door was frozen solidly shut, and it took about half an hour for a powerful hot-air blower- standard equipment at Siberian airports- to break the icy seal. Stepping outside was like stepping onto another planet, for at those low temperatures nothing seems quite normal. The air burns. Sounds are brittle. Every breath hovers in a strangle slow-motion cloud, adding to the mist of ice that pervades the city and blurs the sun. When the breath freezes into ice dust and falls almost silently to the ground, Siberians call it the whisper of stars.”
― David K. Shipler, Russia: Broken Idols, Solemn Dreams

“There are many ways to honor America. This book is mine. I have completed this journey of self-education in the belief that the most terrifying possibility since 9/11 has not been terrorism--as frightening as that is--but the prospect that Americans will give up their rights in pursuing the chimera of security.”
― David K. Shipler, The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties

“A key test for any society is whether or not it is self-correcting. And to be self-correcting, it must first be open and truthful about itself.”
― David K. Shipler, A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America

“Time magazine found in a 2000 survey that 19 percent of Americans thought they were in the top 1 percent of wage-earners, and another 20 percent expected to be in the future. “So right away you have 39 percent of Americans who thought that when Mr. Gore savaged a plan that favored the top i percent, he was taking a direct shot at them,â€� wrote David Brooks, a senior editor at The Weekly Standard.3”
― David K. Shipler, The Working Poor: Invisible in America

“Terrorism is theater. Its real targets are not the innocent victims but the spectators. Those on the political side of the dead are to be frightened, intimidated, cowed, perhaps drawn into ugly retaliation that will spoil their image among the disinterested, who in turn are to be impressed with the desperate vitality and significance of the movement behind the terrorism. Those on the side of the gunmen, the bombers, the hijackers, are to be encouraged that the cause is alive. The goal of terrorism is not to deplete the ranks of an army, to destroy an enemy’s weapons, or to capture a military objective. It seeks an impact on attitudes, and so it must be spectacular. It relies on drama, it thrives on attention, it carries within it the seeds of contagion.”
― David K. Shipler, Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

“Wo rkers at the edge of poverty are essential to America’s prosperity, but their well-being is not treated as an integral part of the whole. Instead, the forgotten wage a daily struggle to keep themselves from falling over the cliff. It is time to be ashamed.”
― David K. Shipler, The Working Poor: Invisible in America

“On their way to jail, to deportation from the country, or to expulsion from school, those who confront the muscle of the state frequently see their rights bruised, their liberties wounded. This book is about some of those people. Therefore, it is about all of us.”
― David K. Shipler, Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America

“At the extremes of the debate, liberals don’t want to see the dysfunctional family, and conservatives want to see nothing else. Depending on the ideology, destructive parenting is either not a cause or the only cause of poverty. Neither stereotype is correct. In”
― David K. Shipler, The Working Poor: Invisible in America

“The law is too important to be left to the lawyers, to paraphrase Georges Clemenceau about war and generals. We laymen know too little about our Constitution and think too superficially about its influence on the qualities of American life. Civic duty requires more.”
― David K. Shipler, The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties

“Prejudice is a shape shifter. It's very agile in taking forms that seem acceptable on the surface.”
― David Shipler

“Since a president can easily slide into a comfort zone of sycophants, it can’t hurt him to see a few demonstrators with rude T-shirts injecting a small dose of irreverence into a triumphant appearance. In the age of stage-managed events for television, however, White House aides don’t like it.”
― David K. Shipler, Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America

“History in the Middle East has a marvelous elasticity. It is easily stretched, twisted, compressed in the hands of its custodians, squeezed to fit into any thesis of righteous cause or pious grief. But it also has a way of springing back into an inconvenient form, a shape made of hard reminders. Certain features of the past remain as immutable as the ancient stones in Jerusalem—the Western Wall of huge Herodian blocks, the outcropping of bedrock from which Muhammad is said to have ascended to heaven, the stone core of Calvary now encased in ornate grillwork and marble in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The stones are cool to the touch, to the lips, to the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian fingers that tremble as they reach out in faith. The people are imprisoned by history. To draw the boldest outlines of the past is to make Israel’s basic case. To sketch the present is to see the Arabsâ€� plight.”
― David K. Shipler, Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

“The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?”
― David K. Shipler, Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

“Heavy reliance on the tool of confession is lazy. It aborts justice. As a result, whoever murdered eight people that March day in Bwindi—whether the three defendants or others—was not held to account.”
― David K. Shipler, Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America

“The jury convicted him, the government urged life in prison, but the judge gave him only seventeen years and four months, citing his “harshâ€� imprisonment in the brig and noting that “there is no evidence that [Padilla] personally killed, maimed, or kidnapped.â€� The government appealed to the Eleventh Circut, where a panel, voting 2â€�1, ordered the judge to lengthen the sentence.47 Without the torture, he might have gone away for life. Humane interrogations have a long record of success, suggesting that he might have talked anyway. Or, if not, investigators would have been forced to investigate, nail down the facts, and prove his guilt—if he was actually guilty. Once again, torture was a substitute for hard investigation.”
― David K. Shipler, Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America

“The intelligence professional’s passion to collect everything possible is nicely illustrated in an NYPD report under the rubric “Secret,â€� and beneath a blacked-out box that may have contained notes from an infiltrator. The censored document declares ominously in large type: “LOCAL ACTIVIST GROUP TO USE ART MURALS IN ORDER TO SPREAD PEACE MESSAGE; GROUP MAY USE DIRECT ACTION METHODS IN CONJUNCTION WITH STREET THEATRE.â€� It describes the organization as “a collective of artists dedicated to using artwork to spread the word of peace.â€� It uses “murals, banners, posters, and street theatre during its actions.”
― David K. Shipler, Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America

“Publications aren’t the only forms of expression now governed by Hazelwood’s ruling that speech can be limited when administrators claim ownership of the statement and think it’s “unsuitable.â€� Courts have applied the standard to plays, homework assignments, team mascots, and even cheer-leading.62 A cheerleader in Texas was kicked off the squad after she refused to cheer for a basketball player whom she had accused of sexually assaulting her at a party. (He and another boy had been arrested, but a grand jury had refused to indict them.) Her suit was thrown out by a federal district judge and a three-judge panel on the Fifth Circuit, which cited Hazelwood among other factors, noting, “In her capacity as cheerleader, [she] served as a mouthpiece through which [the school] could disseminate speech.â€� The school, the judges ruled, “had no duty to promote [her] message by allowing her to cheer or not cheer, as she saw fit.â€�63”
― David K. Shipler, Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America

“This right to speak serves as the wellspring nourishing other rights. Art cannot flourish, literature cannot inspire, the powerless cannot dissent, the press cannot probe, the voter cannot choose wisely, the space for dialogue cannot remain open, and our system cannot be self-correcting without the First Amendment’s guarantee. That makes free speech bigger than an individual possession, for the right to be heard is also the right to hear: your freedom to speak determines my freedom to know. As citizens of dictatorships discover, imposing silence on one imposes deafness on all. They lose the privilege of listening, and into silence marches tyranny.”
― David K. Shipler, Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America

“If every American school taught the Bill of Rights in a clear and compelling way, if every child knew the fundamental rules that guide the relationships between the individual and the state, then every citizen would eventually feel the reflexive need to resist every violation. We had better begin now, for rights that are not invoked are eventually abandoned.”
― David K. Shipler, Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America