Josh Carpenter

“When given a choice, most people in the ghetto, like anywhere else, would prefer to be able to work, support their families, and live without fear of harm or violence, if given the chance.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“What if eternity is a sterile, impotent, lifeless domain of pure potentialities, which, in order fully to actualize itself, has to pass through temporal existence?”
― Slavoj Žižek, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity

“The issue of women and leadership in the church is not an issue of theology. It is an issue of justice.”
― Pam Hogeweide, Unladylike: Resisting the Injustice of Inequality in the Church

“They lived and laughed and loved and left.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake