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“We may be anxious to reduce crime, but we should remember that in our system of justice, the presumption of innocence is prime, and the law cannot apply one rule to Joe who is a good man, and another to John, who is a hardened criminal.”
― My Own Words: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
― My Own Words: Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.”
― Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair
― Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair
“That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.”
― Babel
― Babel
“Old age is no place for sissies!”
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“The words of Hannah Arendt, written to describe her own sense of statelessness and exile in the turmoil of World War Two, ring as true in the supposedly new reality of the “global village” today as the day they were written. “Contemporary history,” Arendt wrote, “has created a new kind of human being—the kind that are put in concentration camps by their foes and internment camps by their friends.”22”
― The Gift of the Other: Levinas, Derrida, and a Theology of Hospitality
― The Gift of the Other: Levinas, Derrida, and a Theology of Hospitality
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