"More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children."

-- John Powell

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“We can't write a serious novel in the 21st century without acknowledging the inescapable self-awareness we're stuck with. The idea we're surrounded by falsehoods and lies. It's hard for the thinking person to believe in narratives. And yet we want some place to invest our belief.”
“I don't really know how to do much else besides write.”

Source : Source: time.com
“My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.”

Source : Keith Haring (2010). “Keith Haring Journals: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.105, Penguin
“To find equality for mankind, we must first remove the barriers that have divided us for so long.”
“People can only be content when there is enough food.”
“They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!”

Source : Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.44, Nellie Bly
“Being and stability are regarded by our contemporaries as akin to death; they cannot live unless they act, fret, or distract themselves with this or that. Their spirit (provided we can still talk about a spirit in their case) feeds only on sensations and on dynamism, thus becoming the vehicle for the incarnation of darker forces.”
“The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it. That which may be thought right and found convenient in one age, may be thought wrong and found inconvenient in another. In such cases, who is to decide, the living, or the dead?”

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