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“Most world religions also teach that human nature is flawed, and that there is something fundamentally wrong with all human beings that must be corrected in order to reach that religion's idea of salvation or enlightenment. This wrongness may be called original sin or ego or desire or free will... but the existence and overcoming of this inherent wrongness is the basis of the spiritual practices, sacraments, and ethics practiced by their members. ... The concepts of separateness and wrongness are so ingrained in each of us and in our culture that most of us are often not even aware they color our perceptions, life experience, and spiritual growth.”
― River Higginbotham, Paganism: An Introduction to Earth-Centered Religions

“After a mass shooting, Republicans and the gun manufacturers' lobby reliably rally around the Second Amendment, shielding it better than they shield our own kids. They immediately gaslight the country, churning up bullshit like an octopus trying to blind a predator with sand.”
― Cody Keenan, Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America

“He was a poor man in a criminal justice system that treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent. - Bryan Stevenson”
― Anthony Ray Hinton, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

“What many Americans heard about Jews they got from Henry Ford, operating out of a Michigan base less than three hundred miles from Indianapolis. His newspaper, the Dearborn Independent, was a fire hose of anti-Semitism and reached a peak circulation of nearly one million readers.”
― Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them