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“when the government fines corporations, rather than sending executives to jail, it amounts to “expensive licenses for criminal misconduct.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

“Journalists claim to be hearing “both sides” as though a binary opposition had been set down by some disinterested god. But it is the journalists themselves who are playing god—it is the journalists who decide which sides are legitimate and which are not, which views shall be considered and which pushed out of the frame.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

“As he walks with the crowd, he understands what he had forgotten: that a march is not just a voice against violence and trauma, but also a reminder that even in a cause that is stacked against them, no one is alone.”
― Cadwell Turnbull, No Gods, No Monsters

“But first he enjoyed the immediate pleasure of smelling a secret garden in his urine that had been purified by lukewarm asparagus.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera