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“According to Human Rights Watch, “the proportion of blacks in prison populations exceeds the proportion among state residents in every single state.”
― Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide

“I feel like I'm making all the mistakes I would have made if I'd been dating people since I was thirteen. Even if you're really just playing at being in a relationship, you're still feeling your way through it at least. You're finding out what it means to be with someone, to care about them, what it means to have someone else in your life like that. I feel like the straight kids all get a roadmap and a head start, and the queer kids get given a faulty compass and a dead leg so they have to limp their way to 'destination relationship' while blindfolded.”
― Simon James Green, You’re the One That I Want

“In Britain, Prime Minister William Gladstone (1809–98) opposed suffrage because to involve women in politics would be, he said, ‘to trespass upon the delicacy, the purity, the refinement, the elevation of their nature’.”
― Jack Holland, A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice

“Good people are not racist, only bad people are. This neat binary is a great way of avoiding any real discussion at all. But without the structural violence of unequal treatment before the law and in education, and a history of racial exploitation by states, simple acts of personal prejudice would have significantly less meaning.”
― Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire