Claudine

“In Garfield’s experience, education was salvation. It had freed him from grinding poverty. It had shaped his mind, forged paths, created opportunities where once there had been none. Education, he knew, led to progress, and progress was his country’s only hope of escaping its own painful past. In”
― Candice Millard, Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

“Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“In her Georgia misery she had pictured freedom, and it had not looked like this. Freedom was a community laboring for something lovely and rare. Mingo”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless.
Not to speak is to speak.
Not to act is to act.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer