Indah Jamtani

“Anyone who claims that contraception and abortion are incompatible with the prevailing views of the Vatican should take a look at this book by Pope John XXI.”
― Arnold van de Laar, Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations

“[W]e would never think it was humane to pay someone to rape people convicted of rape, or assault and abuse someone guilty of assault or abuse. Yet we were comfortable killing people who kill in part because we think we can do it in a manner that doesn’t implicate our own humanity the way that raping or abusing someone would. I couldn’t stop thinking that we don’t spend much time contemplating the details of what killing someone actually involves.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“Common sense is like a fresh, simplistic, non-prejudiced analysis of a problem that was otherwise considered complicated.”
― Alberto Peña, Monologues of a Pediatric Surgeon

“Mercy is most empowering, liberating, and transformative when it is directed at the undeserving. The people who haven’t earned it, who haven’t even sought it, are the most meaningful recipients of our compassion.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy