“How many people, I wonder, can be penned up and tormented – reeducated – before it begins to matter to the majority of Americans? How does this penning people up look to other countries? Do they know? Would they care? There are worse things happening here in the States and elsewhere, I know.”

“How many people, I wonder, can be penned up and tormented – reeducated – before it begins to matter to the majority of Americans? How does this penning people up look to other countries? Do they know? Would they care? There are worse things happening here in the States and elsewhere, I know.”

— Octavia E. Butler