Pax Sara Pennypacker Quotes & Sayings

Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of communities of color was explained in race-neutral terms, an adaptation to the needs and demands of the current political climate. The New Jim Crow was born. — Michelle Alexander

People assume that I came back to Washington because of the 'Post', but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job. — Katharine Weymouth

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies. — James Bryce

Life's cheap out here, Daniel. With a little budgeting I can get by till you go off to college."

"And then?"

My dad reached for whatever he was drinking that day.

"There don't always have to be a then." He poured, drank, swallowed, grimaced. Left his hand on the bottleneck. "Hell, there ain't really a now, so why should there be a then? — Dale Peck

You gotta make a change. Its time for us as a people to start making some changes, lets change the way we eat, lets change the way we live, and lets change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so its on us, to do what we gotta do to survive. — Tupac Shakur

He could offer only withness, but nothing else was asked. — Sara Pennypacker

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege. — Joseph Stalin

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. — Robert A. Heinlein

This war that is coming - are you sure it will harm all in its path? Even the youth? Everything. It will destroy everything. Pax — Sara Pennypacker

When you talk about God, the first thing that comes along is not love, it's fear. You have to fear, and be in awe. You have to be scared. Any religion, it's like first thing ... — Ang Lee

You were witnessing me become this crazy and cerebral girl, the kind of girl that you and your entire generation vilified. But doesn't witnessing contain complicity? "You think too much," is what they always said when their curiosity ran out. — Chris Kraus

Pax? That's his name? It means 'peace,' you know." Peter knew that - lots of people had told him. "But — Sara Pennypacker