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"...radical texts do not always have a predominantly radical readership. Many were (and still are) interested in reading this type of literature in order to be titillated or horrified, or because it has other qualities (e.g. being aesthetically admirable) than its ideological content."

NOW will you please leave this cursed town?!

Why won't Kirie just run away with her boyfriend? 😭 dammit Kirie

"That day was sunshine from start to finish. All nature seemed to be on a vacation. The flower beds and lawns of Saint-Cloud were balmy with perfume; the breeze from the Seine vaguely stirred the leaves; the boughs were gesticulating in the wind; the bees were pillaging the jasmine; a whole bohemian crew of butterflies had settled in the yarrow, clover, and wild oats."

"'Wise!' you will say, and Tholomyès? Solomon would answer that love is a part of wisdom. We limit ourselves to saying that Fantine's love was a first, an only, a faithful love."

Oh, so YOU'RE the bastard that did this to Fantine? *sharpens knife*

"Walter's case had taught me that the death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is, Do we deserve to kill?"

"Many states were using drugs that had been banned for animal euthanasia because they caused a painful and torturous death."

"Soon, Walter needed to be moved into the sort of facility that provided care for the elderly and infirm. Most places wouldn't take him because he had been convicted of a felony. Even when we explained that he was wrongfully convicted and later proved innocent, we couldn't get anyone to admit him."

"He once told me that a guard had punched him in the chest just because he had asked a question about meal times. He started crying as he told me this because he just couldn't understand why the officer had done that."

"Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days."

"It was a common tactic used by Southern politicians during civil rights protests: Sue national media outlets for defamation if they provide sympathetic coverage of activists or if they characterize Southern politicians and law enforcement officers unfavorably. Southern state court judges and all-white juries were all too willing to rule in favor of "defamed" local officials..."

""Dr. Ed Seger" had made up his credentials. He had never graduated from college but had fooled hospital officials into believeing he was a trained physician with expertise in psychiatry. He had masqueraded at the hospital for eight years conducting competency evaluations on people accused of crimes before his fraud was uncovered."

"There was a shamefulness about the experience of Herbert's execution that I couldn't shake. Everyone I saw at the prison seemed surrounded by a cloud of regret and remorse. The prison officials had pumped themselves up to carry out the execution with determination and resolve, but even they revealed extreme discomfort and some measure of shame."

"I couldn't help but ask myself, Where were these people when he really needed them? Where were all of these helpful people when Herbert was three and his mother died? Where were they when he was seven and trying to recover from physical abuse? Where were they when he was a young teen struggling with drugs and alcohol? Where were they when he returned from Vietnam traumatized and disabled?"

"When I thought about what I would have done when I was sixteen years old or nineteen or even twenty-four, I was scared to realize that I might have run. The more I thought about it, the more concerned I became about all the young black boys and men in that neighborhood. Did they know not run? Did they know to stay calm and say, "It's okay"?"

"As illustrated by these numerous studies, and many others that were not mentioned here, gender-pricing constitutes a problem that cannot be simply explained by the willingness of women to pay an additional amount for 'feminine' products and/or for products adapted to their 'special needs'."

"To shape customers' choices into a more profitable and predictable pattern and to prevent the handing down of baby clothes from one child to the next (which was effortlessly feasible with gender-neutral colours) as much as possible, cloth manufacturers adopted and applied 'the pink and blue coding'."

"I am Tehlu, lord above all. I have come to free you from demons and the wickedness of your own hearts. I am Tehlu, son of myself. Let the wicked hear my voice and tremble."

"If you chose to get over all your reasons why the money you so desire is evil or your identity as someone who's scared of intimacy or your attachment to a plethora of other excuses that you perceive to be very serious and real when they're really probably kind of cute and ridiculous—you could literally create any reality you want."

"In a country with a martial tradition as strong as Japan's, it should come as no surprise that certain of its battlefields and castles are considered haunted. One of the most famous of these is Hachioji Castle."

"How is it that something so minor as the color of a bird's feathers can make the difference between being regarded as the international symbol of peace and being the urban symbol of filth and nuisance?"

"America without taxes, and big government, and terrorist bullshit. I knew this was coming, end of the world, been saying it since the sixties. I got out because I love it too much, really. But I'll never leave the U.S. of A. God bless America."

"Conflict, the basis of all storytelling, itself has been negated by an overwhelming worship of whiteness."

"It is a great moment in every freak's life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one."

"It was the diary of the first black nerd."

"I am a mulatto. I am a mulatto in a long line of mulattoes, so visibly lacking in African heritage that I often appear to some uneducated eyes as a random, garden-variety white guy."

"It was not clear that Jeffree actually believed this, but it was obvious that he liked the sound of it, its biblical and Diasporan overtones."