Shannon

“But I can tell my own story, which studies suggest is an increasingly common one.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

“After proclaiming as a virtual destiny that the oppressor could not possibly understand or empathize with the oppressed, King was offering white oppressors a second chance; they might be clueless but not hopeless. Maybe interracial understanding was possible after all. Maybe they could respond to the cry for justice if they could first feel the injustice. As”
― Jonathan Rieder, Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation

“Sometimes I feel like I'm getting tired of standing up for this country.”
― Willa Cather, The Prairie Trilogy

“The world brings itself into being before my eyes in an everlasting present: I grow used to its different aspects so quickly that it does not seem to me to change.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed