Bart Kielich

“But in her current mood, small affronts were bundled with larger disappointments and became a body of evidence.”
― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

“the strength of the regime came from its ability to isolate its own citizens”
― Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea

“There are three great taboos in textbook publishing,” an editor at one of the biggest houses told me, “sex, religion, and social class.” While I had been able to guess the first two, the third floored me. Sociologists know the importance of social class, after all. Reviewing American history textbooks convinced me that this editor was right, however. The notion that opportunity might be unequal in America, that not everyone has “the power to rise in the world,” is anathema to textbook authors, and to many teachers as well.”
― James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“British baby farmer Amelia Dyer, believed to have murdered several hundred infants in her care.[1”
― Harold Schechter, Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men