Damini Patel

“Home is not a given and, for many, a hard, sometimes impossible place to find.”
― Weike Wang, Rental House

“Some research shows people's faith in the Supreme Court may be tied to their faith in law itself. If half our citizens don't believe the Supreme Court is legitimate, how will our democracy function?

"Like the Miner's Canary," an early scholar of federal Indian law wrote, "the Indian marks the shift from fresh air to poison gas in our political atmosphere." How our government treats Indigenous peoples, he argued, "reflects the rise and fall of our democratic faith.”
― Rebecca Nagle, By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land ― A Reported History of Native Land Rights