“It is hard to talk about a middle ground for something that is a fundamental right.”

“Sometimes something comes along and tears your roots right out the ground, and that’s when you know you been planted too long.”

“...didn't see what good all the talk about justice was if nobody tried to help when things got risky.”

“Simple is hard enough. Who needs complicated?”

“Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.”

“The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. — that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesn’t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them.”

“...to form something greater than the sum of its parts.”