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In the 1950s, there was no Child Protective Services. I remember being on the train in New York and seeing a sign: Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. What about children? I wondered. What about me?
the irony, protect animals but not children. but, on the other hand, i think they saw children as belonging to parents, the family...when is there too much involvement ocer the lives of others? there are however, situations where there is always outside intervention necessary...always extreme, "how could this even be concieveable" to have happened?
“I have looked many men in the eye. Some I deemed villains, liars, and beasts. Others, more trustworthy than clergy. A binary discussion, assigning simply black or white, is a stunted reading of these individuals, the death of, "Why?" The color black is an unintelligible void and white, an incoherent scream, each lacking the constructive facts shrouded in the other. Only through shades of each is there an understanding of reality, any conception of an image. And so, I've sought them, these violent shades of gray.
From JR Hazard, introduction to Of Empire and Illusion”
― Of Empire and Illusion: Or the Manuscript as it Sat August 27, 1987
From JR Hazard, introduction to Of Empire and Illusion”
― Of Empire and Illusion: Or the Manuscript as it Sat August 27, 1987
“Surely judgement was in the eye of the beholder- unless one counted God.”
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“We gossip about God in all sorts of ways. When we tell people that they have to wear the right clothes to church, or listen to the right music, or not see certain movies to be a good Christian, we make God petty and small. When we say that He favors one group of people over another, we make God mean and heartless.”
― Fall to Grace: A Revolution of God, & Society
― Fall to Grace: A Revolution of God, & Society
“I don't care who you are because I care who I am," she would say fiercely.”
― The Girl Who Sleeps in the Moon
― The Girl Who Sleeps in the Moon
“May I venture an explanation: writing is the ultimate recourse for those who have betrayed”
― The Selected Writings of Jean Genet
― The Selected Writings of Jean Genet
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