Gerry Mander

“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The statues and pageantry can fool you. They look like symbols of wars long settled, fought on behalf of men long dead. But their Redemption is not about honoring a past. It’s about killing a future.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

“The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm and 1984

“The danger we present, as writers, is not that we will simply convince their children of a different dogma but that we will convince them that they have the power to form their own.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message