“Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.” — Natalia Ginzburg (Italian Novelist, Essayist, Playwright, Politician)

“Dear goddess! Face-up again against the renewal of vows. Do not let me die a coward, mother. Nor forget how to sing. Nor forget song is a part of mourning as light is a part of sun.” - Audre Lorde (American Writer, Poet, Professor, Philosopher, Activist)

“Sudanese orphan abandoned twice, and displaced twice in his country's grievous war - one of nearly five million Sudanese children who have lost almost everything as they are pushed from one place to the next in what is now the world's worst humanitarian crisis.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sudan civil war: Nowhere else on Earth are so many children on the run

The BBC's Lyse Doucet writes about the horrific effects of the 19-month civil war in Sudan.

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Sansho the Bailiff (1954) by Kenji Mizoguchi will always be at once exquisitely cinematic, resonant, prismatic and compassionate. “Without mercy, man is not a human being.” (Zushio quoting his father)

“The history of the United States is the story of a struggle between the desire to establish certain universal rights & the countervailing desire to preserve a particular social order.” — Chris Hayes (New York Times Op-Ed March 17, 2018)