Manuel E.

“David Simon: The things that reform systems are trauma. Great trauma. Nobody gives up status quo without being pushed to the wall. I believe that politically. The great reformations of society are the result of undue excess and undue cruelty. The reason you have collective bargaining in America and it became powerful is that works were pushed to the starvation point. The reason that you have the civil rights we do is that people were hanging from trees. That notion of the system [being] self-reforming without incredible outside pressure and without first [bringing] about incredible trauma through inhumanity or indifference - I find that to be really dubious. I’m arguing for reform. It’s not like I can say this and say we should throw up our hands and can’t try. Every day, you gotta get up. I’m saying this with the clarity of: there’s no choice but to try. (68)”
― Jonathan Abrams, All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire

“Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.”
― Abigail Adams, The Quotable Abigail Adams

“Ain't no shame in holding on to grief. As long as you make room for other things, too.”
― David Simon

“All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop those talents.”
― John F. Kennedy