Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. – Robert Kennedy
If any man claims the Negro should be content… let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim. – Robert Kennedy
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. – Robert Kennedy
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. – Robert Kennedy
It was the farthest she had ever been from home, not only in miles but in feeling. The vastness of the desert frightened her. Everything looked too far away, even the cloudless sky. There was nowhere you could hide in such emptiness. – James Carlos Blake, The Rules of Wolfe: A Border Noir, 2013