Robin

“I know more than one genius organizer, usually a Black or brown, sick or disabled woman or non-binary person who doesn't have a ton of disability community, who's casually told me that they'll be dead by the age of fifty. I respect that crip years are like dog years and sometimes we live really huge lives in short amounts of time. But I can't help but think that it doesn't have to be that way. We're soaked since birth in narratives that we will die young, that our lives aren't worth living, and we're up against everything from insurance denials to police trying to kill us who want to do the same damn thing. But as I hear my friends talking about how they're sure they'll die young, I wonder if changing the narratives around care might change their expectations.”
― Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

“You'd think the symbolic order would be showing a few more dents by now.”
― Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts

“So much information is now available to all that even unsophisticated people can easily detect inconsistencies in government policies and glaring inadequacies in the teachings of many of our institutions. We have greater doubts about the truthfulness and strength of our leaders, and we no longer take for granted the standards of conduct set by our churches, our universities, and even our laws. Thus, the information explosion has helped to weaken older value systems, but as yet no new systems have replaced the old.”
― Seymour Halleck, Politics of Therapy

“The people of New York City have never experienced such fellowship, such awareness of being one, as they did last night in the midst of darkness,' Rabbi Heschel told his class at Union Seminary. 'Indeed, there is a light in the midst of the darkness of this hour. But, alas, most of us have no eyes.”
― Taylor Branch, At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68