Rohit Katyal

“The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination. As President Lyndon B. Johnson said in 1965, “You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, ‘You are free to compete with all the others,’ and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.” As U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun wrote in 1978, “In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“An antiracist treats and remembers individuals as individuals. “She acted that way,” we should say, “because she is racist.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“Words are like coin—it pays to hoard."
"Until you die on a bed of gold," Paran said.”
― Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon