Mandi

“In the eyes of the vast majority of white Americans, the refusal of the southern states to fully free or enfranchise former slaves and their descendants was not an issue worthy of any further disruption to the civil stability of the United States. Black Americans were exchanged for a sense of white security.”
― Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

“Doctors and drugs (medical errors) are the third-leading cause of death in the United States (behind heart disease and cancer). As reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, over 250,000 Americans die each year from medical therapies, including at least 113,000 from the negative effects of prescription medications.”
― Rodger H. Murphree, Treating and Beating Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 5th Ed

“And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own.”
― E.L. Doctorow, Homer & Langley

“Compassion isn't just about feeling the pain of others; it's about bringing them in toward yourself. If we love what God loves, then, in compassion, margins get erased. 'Be compassionate as God is compassionate,' means the dismantling of barriers that exclude.”
― Gregory Boyle , Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion