S.M. Schwartz

“But you are a black boy, and you must be responsible for your body in a way that other boys cannot know.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“In 1955, there was one psychiatric bed for every three hundred Americans; fifty years later, it was one bed for every three thousand.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

“The solution is not that people need to major in marketing in college, but that their liberal education should be more structured and demanding. Majors should have some required sequence of basic courses, as in economics.”
― Fareed Zakaria, In Defense of a Liberal Education

“Despite Israel’s great religious and historical importance, at that time it had few significant Jewish communities—by the mid-twelfth century, only a few Jews remained in Israel. The Jews suffered from the invasion of the Christian crusaders, who burned synagogues and killed or forcibly converted some Jews. Many towns no longer had Jews, but there were a number of small communities left, ranging from twenty to two hundred families. There were about two hundred families in Jerusalem, and Benjamin described Jews praying at the Wailing Wall.”
― Jeffrey Gorsky, Exiles in Sepharad: The Jewish Millennium in Spain