Sean Gratrix

“funding that had once been used for public housing was being redirected to prison construction.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“Proponents of racial hierarchy found they could install a new racial caste system without violating the law or the new limits of acceptable political discourse by demanding “law and order” rather than “segregation forever.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“books, like people, die. They die in fires or floods or in the mouths of worms or at the whims of tyrants. If they are not safeguarded, they go out of the world. And when a book goes out of the world, the memory dies a second death.”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“What little thinking I do is my own and I do it on government time.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire