Stephen Done

“fewer than 5% of Black children currently reside in census tracts with a low poverty rate (below 10%) and fathers present in more than half of homes. In contrast, 62.5% of White children live in low-poverty areas with fathers living in more than half of children’s homes. Here we can see the contemporary legacy of racial neighborhood segregation in the US, which was cemented by decades of the discriminatory and harmful practice of “redlining” in US mortgage and housing markets.”
― Melissa S. Kearney, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind

“Both waves produced consistent findings of positive impacts of BAM participation on student outcomes. Among boys who were randomly assigned to participate in the program, total arrests fell by 28–35%, violent arrests fell by 45–50%, and school engagement improved, as compared to boys in the control group. Follow-up data from the first wave showed that participation in BAM led to a 12–19% increase in the rate at which boys graduated high school.”
― Melissa S. Kearney, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind

“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“When one enters any intellectual battle, big or small, public or private, one cannot seek, desire or expect the enemy’s sanction. Truth or falsehood must be one’s sole concern and sole criterion of judgment—not anyone’s approval or disapproval; and, above all, not the approval of those whose standards are the opposite of one’s own.”
― Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism