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“Butterflies have always had wings; people have always had legs. While history is marked by the hybridity of human societies & the desire for movement, the reality of most of migration today reveals the unequal relations between rich & poor, between North and South, between whiteness and its others.”
― Harsha Walia, Undoing Border Imperialism

“Branches or types are characterized by the plan of their structure,
Classes, by the manner in which that plan is executed, as far as ways and means are concerned,
Orders, by the degrees of complication of that structure,
Families, by their form, as far as determined by structure,
Genera, by the details of the execution in special parts, and
Species, by the relations of individuals to one another and to the world in which they live, as well as by the proportions of their parts, their ornamentation, etc.”
― Louis Agassiz, Essay on Classification

“I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.”
― Catherine the Great

“Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?”
― Walker Percy, The Moviegoer