Holly Odom

“What sticks with her students long after they’re gone and grown up is the feeling that, as children, this adult treated them as human beings.”
― Harry N. MacLean, In Broad Daylight

“For this is part at least of what industrialism has done for us. Columbus sailed the Atlantic, the first steam engines tottered into motion, the British squares stood firm under the French guns at Waterloo, the one-eyed scoundrels of the nineteenth century praised God and filled their pockets; and this is where it all led—to labyrinthine slums and dark back kitchens with sickly, ageing people creeping round and round them like blackbeetles”
― George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier