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“Between midnight and four, everyone should have permission to speak freely.”
― The Institute
― The Institute
“Black men use drugs at the same rate as white men, but they are arrested twice as often for it. And then they pay more than a third more than their counterparts, on average, in bail. Black men are six times as likely as white men to be incarcerated. And when they are convicted, black men get sentences nearly 20 percent longer than those given to their white counterparts. Latino men don’t fare much better. It is truly appalling.”
― The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
― The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
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“I mention all this to all of you for a reason. I want to make sure all of you—especially the more wimpy, compliant, and fuddle-brained of your lot—get the message here: DON’T LET THE BASTARDS WEAR YOU DOWN”
― The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association
― The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association
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