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“it isn't only locked doors that hide treasures.”
― Kate Milford, Greenglass House

“We’re supposed to sentence people fairly after fully considering their life circumstances, but instead we exploit the inability of the poor to get the legal assistance they need—all so we can kill them with less resistance.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“As a side effect, our bridge would halt the North Atlantic Ocean circulation. According to climate scientists, this is "probably bad.”
― Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

“In debates about the death penalty, I had started arguing that we would never think it was humane to pay someone to rape people convicted of rape or assault and abuse someone guilty of assault or abuse. Yet we were comfortable killing people who kill, in part because we think we can do it in a manner that doesn’t implicate our own humanity, the way that raping or abusing someone would.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy