S.Matt Read

“In November 1953, New Jersey senator Robert C. Hendrickson began his committee on juvenile delinquency ... [beginning] with several weeks of hearings in Washington and cities up and down the Eastern Seaboard on topics including gangs, narcotics, pornography, juvenile access to firearms, and child prostitution. What stuck with the public, though, was comic books.”
― Dan Nadel

“Jaimie kept a quiet profile and conducted himself in accordance with the Nickel handbook's rules of conduct -- a miracle, since no one had ever seen the handbook despite its constant invocations by the staff. Like justice, it existed in theory.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“After World War II, the sharp increase in people wishing for world peace achieved a consistent lull in all hostility worldwide. However, it was soon proven that peace did not guarantee prosperity, and many nations began to protest against wishing for peace, as it prevented aggrieved parties from seeking retribution...”
― Deena Mohamed, Shubeik Lubeik

“I'm numbed by so many accounts of incarceration that the sort of thing that raises my brow is a male in his mid-20s who hasn't been arrested...”
― Joe Sacco, Palestine