Rezal Gillies

“And why do you pray, Moishe?” I asked him. “I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“It is not the fault of the slaveholder that he is cruel, so much as it is the fault of the system under which he lives. He cannot withstand the influence of habit and associations that surround him.”
― Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave

“Men may write fictions portraying lowly life as it is, or as it is not—may expatiate with owlish gravity upon the bliss of ignorance—discourse flippantly from arm chairs of the pleasures of slave life; but let them toil with him in the field—sleep with him in the cabin—feed with him on husks; let them behold him scourged, hunted, trampled on, and they will come back with another story in their mouths.”
― Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave

“Mary Lou Kownacki: “There isn’t anyone you couldn’t love once you’ve heard their story.”
― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember