Backpackers Cache Quotes

#1. Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively to ensure the subordinate status of a group defined largely by race.

Michelle Alexander

#2. A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them.

Marshall McLuhan

#3. Atticus Finch is the same in his house as he is on the public streets.

Harper Lee

#4. Why was it always the adults who showed such blind hatred, while we children did our best to get along?

Hannah Shah

#5. I love getting in the open floor and running.

Chris Bosh

#6. She was a real human being laying herself bare, fearlessly, that we might come to understand the nature of our own predicaments.

Cheryl Strayed

#7. Pandora, possessed by the unleashed contents of her box.

Salman Rushdie

#8. 112. I listened for the whisper, of your sweet insanity.

Maynard James Keenan

#9. One of the things that really worries me, in part about Mexico, in part about Latin America, and in part about the Hispanic population in the U.S. and Canada. It's the lack of awareness of this whole science world.

Juan Enriquez

#10. No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. - Robert Green Ingersoll

Jerry A. Coyne

#11. The stars, like dust, encircle me
In living mists of light;
And all of space I seem to see
In one vast burst of sight

Isaac Asimov