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“If members of the professions confuse their specific ethics with the emotions of the moment, however, they can find themselves saying and doing things that they might previously have thought unimaginable.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: The Book to Help You Understand Why Democracy Is Failing

“Aristotle warned that inequality brought instability, while Plato believed that demagogues exploited free speech to install themselves as tyrants.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood.”
― Susan B. Anthony

“And even that young I learned music can become a bridge between you and a total stranger.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X