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Book cover for Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done. My work with the poor and the incarcerated has persuaded me that the opposite of poverty is not wealth; the opposite of poverty is justice.
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Rodney  Smith
“Life responds when we risk”
Rodney Smith, Lessons from the Dying

“When a baby falls asleep in your arms you are absolved. The purest creature alive has chosen you. There’s nothing else.”
Louise Erdrich, The Sentence: A Novel

Steve S. Saroff
“Clean clothes. Gentle talk. Someone to wake up with. Maybe relationships would work if they were based on present-tense actions that never looked for a future beyond the next day.”
Steve S. Saroff, Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder

Rodney  Smith
“The cause of our suffering is not what we do, but the way we perceive.”
Rodney Smith, Stepping Out of Self-Deception: The Buddha's Liberating Teaching of No-Self

Gabriel García Márquez
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

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