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“A silence fell between them; in it lay the ugly truth that none of them wanted to face. The village was in South Vietnam. And only the Americans had bombs.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“I want to be among the coalition of the faithful. I want to be among those working for the change we need now.” That’s the decision with which I need to align my life every day.”
― Mariann Edgar Budde, How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith

“Gamache was very aware of the warning not to attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.”
― Louise Penny, The Grey Wolf

“By adulthood, researchers have found, most Americans have been exposed to a culture with enough negative messages about African-Americans and other marginalized groups that as much as 80 percent of white Americans hold unconscious bias against black Americans, bias so automatic that it kicks in before a person can process it, according to the Harvard sociologist David R. Williams. The messaging is so pervasive in American society that a third of black Americans hold anti-black bias against themselves.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents