Ray Johns

“This is a book about a very simple idea: where the criminal justice system fails to respond vigorously to violent injury and death, homicide becomes endemic. African Americans have suffered from just such a lack of effective criminal justice, and this, more than anything, is the reason for the nation’s long-standing plague of black homicides.”
― Jill Leovy, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

“...mutual aid and pleasure are linked, that the ties that bind are grounds for celebration as well as obligation.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

“As long as a single center has a monopoly on the use of coercion, one has a state rather than a self-governed society.”
― Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons

“Certainly a liberal education does manifest itself in a courtesy, propriety, and polish of word and action, which is beautiful in itself, and acceptable to others; but it does much more. It brings the mind into form,—for the mind is like the body.”
― John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University: Defined and Illustrated in Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin in Occasional Lectures and Essays Addressed to ... the