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Jaclyn Hillis
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The prison is considered so “natural” that it is extremely hard to imagine life without it.
“At least the sinners had more compassion than the saints.”
― Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir
― Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir
“Everybody talks about genocides around the world, but when the killing is slow and spread over a hundred years, no one notices. Where there are no mass graves, no one notices. American outrage is always for show. It has a shelf life.”
― The Trees
― The Trees
“I needed to do better. I needed to stop judging and remember that previous offenders were like many of us—worthy of another chance.”
― On Air with Zoe Washington
― On Air with Zoe Washington
“The influx of the religious right changed how they conducted politics. You were either right or wrong, good or evil. That call to arms may have worked for a church, but a democracy requires a balance, even a debate. It needs compromise,”
― Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir
― Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir
“It's the people who've never had to survive who make fun out of the act of survival.”
― How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir
― How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir
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