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“many white Americans viewed laws designed to constrain and marginalize free Black people as entirely justifiable within a broader legal and cultural tradition that encouraged state and local governments to regulate groups of people who were construed to be dependent and potentially disruptive, including paupers, vagrants, wives, and children.”
― Kate Masur, Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

“What about the behaviors toward which the incelosphere is gently nudging its tens of thousands of members and followers—behaviors that might not make the headlines or the front pages or even be linked back to incel forums at all but that nonetheless spring from ideas hatched, or impulses incubated, on those hate-filled websites?”
― Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All

“As his sixth wife, Debbie became a stepmother to Blackmore’s thirty-one kids, most of whom were older than she was.”
― Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

“I can’t tell you how many of my clients start out trying to be all things to all people. They say, “Oh, you need that? Yes, we do that,” and, “You want those? No problem.” Over time, though, they, their customers, and their employees become frustrated, and the business becomes less profitable. This helter-skelter method may have gotten you to where you are today and helped you survive the early drought, but to break through the ceiling, you have to create some focus.”
― Gino Wickman, Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business