Eric

“Just seventeen years after Benjamin Franklin became America’s first postmaster general, the Post Office Act utterly transformed his modest mail network. He would have been flabbergasted by the speed at which the post would become the federal government’s biggest, most important department and prime the United States to become the world’s most literate, best-informed country within two generations—surely one of the most significant, least appreciated developments in American history. •”
― Winifred Gallagher, How the Post Office Created America: A History

“Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“Gratitude for every day along the way is the key to acknowledging and enjoying happiness now.”
― Bronnie Ware, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing

“When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was." - Rumi”
― James Blanchard Cisneros, You Have Chosen to Remember: A Journey of Self-Awareness, Peace of Mind and Joy