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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

“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

“Uncle Rulon has married an estimated seventy-five women with whom he has fathered at least sixty-five children; several of his wives were given to him in marriage when they were fourteen or fifteen and he was in his eighties.”
― Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

“The social sciences collectively know too little to waste time on foolish disciplinary squabbles.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century