Devin

“This was a place young people felt safe, safe enough to be mildly radical. To pass around pamphlets for just about anything, and not worry about the imperial censorship boards. Who would censor kids just learning to be servants of empire?”
― Arkady Martine, A Memory Called Empire

“The rhetoric that rural white women lacked womanliness because they were drudges who farmed the land was built on a long-held anti-Black and anti-Indigenous settler colonial logic that categorized those who lived close to and worked the land as less than human.”
― Stacy Jane Grover, Tar Hollow Trans: Essays

“No—how widely was the whole thing, or anything, known?” “Oh. Widely, very widely.” “How?” “Oh, things seeped through somehow, always quietly, always indirectly. So people heard rumors, and the rest they could guess. Of course, most people did not believe the stories of Jews or other opponents of the regime. It was naturally thought that such persons would all exaggerate.”
― Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45

“Since its foundation, Poland was evolving. With ever-changing geographical boundaries, its ethnic composition varied as new communities folded into its borders. Medieval Jews migrated to Poland because it was a safe haven from western Europe, where they were persecuted and expelled. Jews were relieved to arrive in this tolerant land with economic opportunity. “Polin,” the Hebrew name for the country, comprises “Po” and “Lin,” and means “Here, we stay.” Polin offered relative freedom and safety. A future.”
― Judy Batalion, The Light of Days