Cheryl

“[T]hose who are in a position of strength have a responsibility to protect the weak.”
― Thomas Cushman, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

“The genius of the current caste system, and what most distinguishes it from its predecessors, is that it appears voluntary. People choose to commit crimes, and that's why they are locked up or locked out, we are told. This feature makes the politics of responsibility particularly tempting, as it appears the system can be avoided with good behavior. But herein lies the trap. All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some point in our lives. In fact, if the worst thing you have ever done is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you have put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of his or her living room. Yet there are people in the United States serving life sentences for first-time drug offenses, something virtually unheard of anywhere else in the world.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“No school can supply an anti-liberal education, or a fascist education, as these terms are contradictory. Liberalism and education are one.”
― George Seldes

“In the last few days of my mother's at-home hospice experience I asked: 'What is the most important thing to know?' She replied, 'Inside each person, there is a treasure.' Every time her answer comes to mind I feel happy.”
― Marcy Lundquist