Marva Nelson

“Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and the willingness of prosecutors to accept plea bargains.”
― Barry Glassner, The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things

“Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by which he means the Quran) in the presence of the Beloved who wrote it?”
― Reza Aslan, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

“Hope criticizes what is, hopelessness rationalizes it. Hope resists, hopelessness adapts.”
― William Sloane Coffin

“In addition, when a neighborhood's crime victims are portrayed as victims-sympathetically and without blame, as humans rather than as statistics-people living in other parts of the city are more inclined to support social services for the area, which in turn can reduce the crime rate.”
― Barry Glassner, The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things