‘I got an email being called the N-word just last week as a matter of fact for some of our coverage. I think at the end of the day what we can do is just truly speak the truth.’ -Marcus Harrison GreenΑπό τον John O'Brien

‘All anybody wanted to talk about was the pandemic, which I resisted for about a week, and then I realized we all need to talk about the pandemic. It's not even like it was the elephant in the room. It's like it was the room. It was unavoidable.’Από τον John O'Brien

‘It took her some time to find her voice, but when she did she said three careful words, it’s so beautiful.’Από τον John O'Brien

‘In the equation of institutional sexual abuse, the constant is the abuser. There's always going to be a certain percentage of child sex abusers in the population.’Από τον John O'Brien

‘If black children belong to us, and we need not be mothers or fathers or even black for black children to belong to us, a part of us is always vigilant, and always exhausted.’Από τον John O'Brien

‘When I talk about public safety, when I talk about I need more officers, I always lead with, but not in a racialized or militarized fashion.’Από τον John O'Brien

One poet asks, ‘Will you not open this door for me? My hand is exhausted from knocking at your door.’Από τον John O'Brien

‘It’s not going to happen in my lifetime. We are working to a future that we will not live to see. That’s what this work is about, and the healing is knowing that we’re doing it together.’Από τον John O'Brien

‘It's a different kind of approach and different kind of exchange that I know that we can do because I've seen it, and it's growing. It begins with a different definition of listening. Listening is about showing people they matter.’Από τον John O'Brien

'This, I argue, is the beginning of the Age of Exploration, the Age of Discovery, and thereby, the start of the modern world.’Από τον Kendra Hanna

‘Contemporary Asian American Activism: Building Movements for Liberation’Από τον Kendra Hanna

‘Black women have been deeply engaged in trying to figure out how to get this country to accept, to understand, to learn about human rights.’Από τον Kendra Hanna

‘That's why we lose a lot of our own community members who are not interested in western sciences because they don't see themselves being reflected. I think with Indigenous science we have to reflect ourselves because, otherwise, we are ignoring part of our kinships and also teachings that we have been passed down.’…

‘Free speech has been perhaps one of the most powerful engines of human equality that we've ever stumbled upon as a species.’Από τον John O'Brien

‘We are having exponential growth in our understanding of the immune system. There’s just so much to learn, and our baseline has just been established.’Από τον John O'Brien

‘We had been married over five years before he decided that he would even mention to me what had happened. I just knew he was having trouble sleeping. And this is the kind of torture that followed him until he died.’Από τον John O'Brien

‘It’s Tim who stands out in my memory, who was always by my side. Until he wasn’t.’Από τον Kendra Hanna

‘Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid’Από τον John O'Brien

'Crane is now in the hands of the specialists, while the invisible army of so-called general readers, the same people who still take pleasure in reading old standbys such as Melville and Whitman, are no longer reading Crane.’Από τον John O'Brien

What it will take to share this region with Qw'e lh'ol mechen, ‘the people that live under the sea’Από τον John O'Brien

‘Dr E. Forbes-Sempill henceforth wishes to be known as Dr Ewan Forbes-Sempill’Από τον John O'Brien

‘We know it’s a cultural problem. We know it’s a behavioral problem. But it’s not a problem of a few bad apples.’ – Professor Anita HillΑπό τον John O'Brien

‘I’m still surprised when I’m noticed. I came to believe I was invisible.’Από τον Kendra Hanna

A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of ChristmasΑπό τον John O'Brien

‘The indifference is impenetrable and reliable and distributed across centuries, and I am stupidly hurt when my friends can’t see that.’Από τον John O'Brien