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“Trump isn't the reason why evangelicals turned to racism. They were racist all along.”
― Anthea Butler, White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America

“...if we as librarians do not give authority, respectability, and support to new ideas and new voices, who will? If we do not provide our patrons with access to revolutionary ideas and methods of communication, who will?”
― Julie Bartel, From A To Zine: Building A Winning Zine Collection In Your Library

“We deserve to have our wrongdoing represented as much as our heroism, because when we refuse wrongdoing as a possibility for a group of people, we refuse their humanity.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

“If we have to worry about following any prescribed path in order to be ourselves — no matter who prescribes it: the trans community, the medical establishment, or the non-trans assumptions of stereotypical (and therefore socially validated) gender behavior—we are only setting ourselves up to be judged by an arbitrary standard that can be changed at any time by those to whom we've delegated authority over our own authenticity.”
― Jamison Green, Becoming a Visible Man