Amy D.

“Even when the evidence was overwhelming some still hurled abuse and threats at the victims and found ways to deny the merits of their stories. Because to believe them would mean questioning foundational assumptions. It would be uncomfortable, and many speak of comfort as a right, even when—especially when—that comfort is built upon the suffering and silencing of others.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Mother of All Questions

“It wasn't easy to convince most women to venture toward gunfire in a snowstorm in the dark to find wounded, but a surprising number volunteered. These were not the wives of lords or wealthy merchants or generals but the wives of frontiersman, who were used to shouldering the burden of survival alongside their husbands.”
― Erin Makela, Worthy of Trust: That Word Honor: Book I

“But Mom said no. I'll probably get in trouble."
I shrugged. "You're probably gonna get in trouble at some point today anyway. You may as well get a slushy out of it.”
― Dan Geimenhart

“One of the hallmarks of Western liberalism is an assumption, in hindsight, of virtuous resistance as the only polite expectation of people on the receiving end of colonialism. While the terrible thing is happening—while the land is still being stolen and the natives still being killed—any form of opposition is terroristic and must be crushed for the sake of civilization. But decades, centuries later, when enough of the land has been stolen and enough of the natives killed, it is safe enough to venerate resistance in hindsight.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This