Ingrid

“Blacks routinely get the worst of it in the judicial process, particularly when they are poor...
The United States sentencing commission found that blacks get sentences 19% longer than whites do, for the same offense, even after controlling for criminal history and other variables. The darker an African-American's complexion, the longer the sentence, researchers found. Blacks are also more likely to be found guilty and be sentenced to death.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

“One of the most infuriating elements of American myopia about investing in at-risk kids is that politicians often insist that they don't have the funds to pay for social services, but they somehow find the resources to pay for prisons later on. Republican lawmakers don't want to pay for $500 IUDs for low-income women, so they pay $17,000 for Medicaid births. They don't want to pay to reduce lead poisoning, even though that means paying for special education classes for years to come.”
― Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

“It’s perhaps telling that the United States for years was, embarrassingly, the only country in the world besides Somalia and South Sudan that had not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. That has now changed: the United States is the only nation that hasn’t bothered to ratify it.”
― Nicholas D Kristof, Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

“Being human is to grieve constantly.”
― Fredrik Backman, My Friends