Tyler

“From the railroads to trucking firms to warehouses, major companies had long treated their workers like costs to be contained rather than human beings with families, medical challenges, and other demands. Employers assumed that they did not have to worry”
― Peter S. Goodman, How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain – An Award-Winning Economic Journalist's Account of How Our Supply Chain Became a Crisis Waiting to Happen

“It's tempting to imagine this romanticization as the opposite as the opposite of stigmatization. Rather than discounting people as stigma does, romanticization lifts them up as paragons of beauty or intellect or some other virtue. But really, I see these as complimentary strategies, used to make "the sick" into an "other," a group of people fundamentally distant and different from the rest of the social order.
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Imaging someone as more than human does much the same work as imaging them as less than human. Either way, the ill are treated as fundamentally other because the social order is frightened by what their frailty reveals about everyone else's.”
― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

“The first generation thinks about survival; the ones that follow tell the stories.”
― Hua Hsu, Stay True

“He [Robert Moses] built parks and playgrounds with a lavish hand, but they were parks and playgrounds for the rich and comfortable...Recreation facilities for the poor he doled out like a miser.”
― Robert Caro