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Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021.
Here are the best quotes we heard from our sources today. (Click through to read the full stories.)
Loretta Lynch (pictured above), U.S. Attorney General: “One neighborhood was Brownsville. It’s about a mile square. And many of its residents are young people who literally never leave that neighborhood … except when the young men go to jail.”
Roger Macfarlane, a classics professor at Brigham Young University: “I honestly wonder about the sometimes pervasive human impulse to judge victims of natural disasters. Did they get what was coming to them?”
Sarah, a 28-year-old mother from Nebraska, about her feelings at her daughter’s birth: “It was grief and fear when it should have been joy and excitement.”
(Previous quotes from our sources here)
About the Author
Rosa Inocencio Smith is a former assistant editor at The Atlantic.