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“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.”
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“In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.”
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“I don't understand all the fuss. If any creature is in danger, you save it, human or animal.”
― The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
― The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
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“Why was it, she asked herself, that 'animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few months, while humans, despite centuries of refinement, can quickly grow more savage than any beast.”
― The Zookeeper's Wife
― The Zookeeper's Wife
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