Simon Maina

“Jim Crow had a way of turning everyone against one another, not just white against black or landed against lowly, but poor against poorer and black against black for an extra scrap of privilege.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

“How could it be that people were fighting to the death over something that was, in the end, so very ordinary?”
― Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

“That’s why I preach today, Do not do spite,” he said. “Spite does not pay. It goes around and misses the object that you aim and comes back and zaps you. And you’re the one who pays for it.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

“YEARLY OATH AGAINST CORRUPTION
“I ________________ do swear in my name, in the name of my spouse ________ and my children _______, … and _______ or my parents _______, ________ or Mother India that I will not take bribes in any form, cash or kind, while holding the office of the ________ and I will not knowingly allow anyone under my charge to take bribes in any form, cash or kind.”
― Meenakshi Sundaram V.R, Let's Transform India - First Things First