Jason

“it’s hard to admit a shared humanity with your neighbor if they will not come with you to reexamine a shared history.”
― Toni Morrison, Recitatif

“Under the right circumstances, anything can be made into something sinister.”
― Laila Lalami, The Dream Hotel

“Words have power. They are the way we pass along history and knowledge and thoughts and ideas. Sometimes conflicting ideas about the same subject. Books - real books like the one in your hands - give everyone equal access to those ideas. Limit the words people can see and you limit their power. Limit the words heard on the news and you shrink people's understanding of the world to what you want them to see. [...] Is it really a choice if you aren't able to see all the options?”
― Joelle Charbonneau, Verify

“A crime isn’t the same as a moral transgression. The law delineates the former, never the latter. I have done nothing wrong, Sara thinks. It’s only that the line of legality has moved, and now I’m on the wrong side of it.”
― Laila Lalami, The Dream Hotel