Before leaving camp, we exchanged the phone numbers and addresses of our new destinations, knowing we would need the refugee telegraph system to discover which city had the best jobs, which state had the lowest taxes, where the best welfare
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“The further back we go, the more the certainty of ancestry increases, though the knowledge of our ancestors decreases. It is simultaneously wonderful, trivial, meaningless, and fun.”
― A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
― A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
“My definition of a racist idea is a simple one: it is any concept that regards one racial group as inferior or superior to another racial group in any way. I define anti-Black racist ideas—the subject of this book—as any idea suggesting that Black people, or any group of Black people, are inferior in any way to another racial group.”
― Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
― Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
“This is an absence of evidence, which we scientists like to remind people is not the same as evidence of absence.”
― A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
― A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
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