Jacob

“Every system of injustice depends on the silence, paralysis, confusion, and cooperation of those it seeks to eliminate or control.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, Sapiens have thus been living in a dual reality. On the one hand, the objective reality of rivers, trees and lions; and on the other hand, the imagined reality of gods, nations and corporations. As time went by, the imagined reality became ever more powerful, so that today the very survival of rivers, trees and lions depends on the grace of imagined entities such as the United States and Google.”
― Yuval Noah Harari

“Unlike lying, an imagined reality is something that everyone believes in, and as long as this communal belief persists, the imagined reality exerts force in the world.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The safest communities are not the ones with the most police, prisons, or electronic monitors, but the ones with quality schools, health care, housing, plentiful jobs, and strong social networks that allow families not merely to survive but to thrive.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness