One of the most interesting classes I took, "Europe and the Americas," detailed the systematic and brutally efficient decimation of indigenous people… - Julián Castro

I’m glad to see local communities across the country that are engaging in deeper thinking about investing in mental health counseling, social workers, housing opportunity, because so many of the calls that police officers are asked to respond to are for people that are homeless or have a mental health issue, that they don’t need an armed cop. The vast majority of them are not violent. What they need is they need services, so that they can get onto a better life. And cities across the country, whether we’re talking about Los Angeles or San Francisco or Austin, Texas, just up the road from me, recently, are moving in that direction. And Joe Biden has said that he wants to work with local communities as they do that. All of that is positive. And as he said, we need to keep pushing.

I realized that I would be much better off just being myself around people. That way I'd attract friends who liked the real me, not some person I was trying to be.

we, as Americans, are more alike than different.