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“During this time, Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal, first with industry codes and then with the Fair Labor Standards Act, prohibited child labor and established minimum wages of about twelve dollars a week in the South, rising to twenty-five cents an hour in 1938. But to pass such economic legislation, Roosevelt needed the votes of southern congressmen and senators, who agreed to support economic reform only if it excluded industries in which African Americans predominated, like agriculture. The Stevenson brothers were each paid only fifty cents a day to work in white farmers’ fields.”
― Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

“The two areas where most of us ordinary folk find the majority of our challenges are our work life and our love life. We tend to give them the most of our time and attention, and they deliver a major portion of the pain we experience.”
― Bonnie Myotai Treace, Wake Up: How to Practice Zen Buddhism

“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”
― Epicurus

“Do not find fault with others, do not injure others, but live in accordance with the dharma. Be moderate in eating and sleeping, and meditate on the highest. This sums up the teaching of the Buddhas.”
― Anonymous, The Dhammapada