Tracilyn

“Cindy, when you went to sleep this night, you did not know you would take the first step of the proverbial thousand-mile journey before the next dawn. You will need genuine strength for each step. Remember, truth is the only source of genuine strength on planet Earth.”
― Shafter Bailey, Cindy Divine: The Little Girl Who Frightened Kings

“I was going to die, if not sooner then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me.”
― Douglas Stone, Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

“If corporations are persons, they're psychopaths.

They only care about their own self-interest and have neither a conscience nor empathy.

They'll walk over dead bodies to make a profit.

They pretend to be woke or care about you or the environment only if it serves them and increases profits.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert

“This wasn’t just some pointless rally, this wasn’t just people whipped up into a frothing roar because of mostly empty words spoken by a strong orator. This was the gleeful destruction of knowledge, of science, of poetry, of love. The students who should have cherished such things were giddy as they watched all of it burn.”
― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books