Topeka

Overview

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Topeka across IJR

• “Kansas law puts transgender people in an impossible position. For transgender people, using the restroom consistent with their gender and how they live their lives, is now against the law in government buildings. But using the restroom consistent with their sex at birth in government buildings may out them as transgender and be unsafe. Either way, transgender people may be punished and harassed.”

• “The "Imperfect Rectangle" has waged an epic struggle and is still doing so, on a more modest scale, over the issue of liquour by the drink. Prohibition is but the historical phase of the continuing effort to achieve an effective and acceptable public policy to control alcohol abuse.”

• “Few Americans know how savagely the Civil War raged or how strange and varied were its issues in what is now Oklahoma and the neighboring states of Kansas, Missouri and Arkansas. Rifles for Watie was faithfully written against the historical backdrop of the conflict in this seldom-publicized, Far-Western theater.”

• “Kansas, however whittled down, was still a giant in size and potential productivity. Conceived in cold calculation, born in a rending hatred, she was to be baptized in blood. It was not a christening. It was a deep-river baptism.”

• “Land Speculators and One Horse politicians. Blood and thunder, drouth and exploitation. Certainly no new state ever chose a more fitting motto than did young Kansas. Ad Astra per Aspera. It had been and would always be 'To the stars by hard ways.”

• “I grew up in Kansas, General. I'm about as American as it gets.”

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