Kam Braley

“The United States puts more people in prison than any country in the world. All told, we had more than 2.1 million people locked up in state and federal prisons in 2018. To put that in perspective: there are fifteen American states that have smaller populations than that.”
― Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

“Yes, the Führer decided that he would rule the world with words. “I will never fire a gun,” he devised. “I will not have to.” Still, he was not rash. Let’s allow him at least that much. He was not a stupid man at all. His first plan of attack was to plant the words in as many areas of his homeland as possible. He planted them day and night, and cultivated them. He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany …. It was a nation of farmed thoughts.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“It was one of the things I valued about running the office. In the end, it was up to me whether we were going to pursue the initiative. I would hear out my critics, but I wouldn’t be constrained by them. I wanted to make a difference. I wanted to prove it could be done.”
― Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

“I thought of James Baldwin, whose words had defined so much of the civil rights struggle. “There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation,” he’d written. “The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.”
― Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold: An American Journey