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“Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.”
—Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)

“Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.”
—Alice Walker (b. 1944)