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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander

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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

tags: disappointment, loneliness, loner, solitude

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“I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

tags: allegiance, beings, human, humanity

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“Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to do with the actual religion. Intelligent people all notice this sooner or later, and they conclude that the entire one hundred percent is bullshit, which is why atheism is connected with being intelligent in people's minds.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

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