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“In 1955, there was one psychiatric bed for every three hundred Americans; fifty years later, it was one bed for every three thousand.”
― Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
― Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
“Today, over 50 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States have a diagnosed mental illness, a rate nearly five times greater than that of the general adult population.”
― Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
― Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
“You cannot forget how much they took from us and how they transfigured our very bodies into sugar, tobacco, cotton, and gold.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“Education Arne Duncan has estimated that Chinese students spend 25 to 30 percent longer a year in school than their American counterparts.”
― In Defense of a Liberal Education
― In Defense of a Liberal Education
“As John Adams famously wrote during the American Revolution, “I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.” So maybe today they’re writing apps rather than studying poetry, but that’s an adjustment for the age.”
― In Defense of a Liberal Education
― In Defense of a Liberal Education
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