People will believe what they want most to believe, what they yearn to be true. Nothing is more readily accepted than the seeming confirmation of an … - Andrew Fox

“The wall will always be there to protect us,” they said. I later came to understand that it is merely a tangible, universally visible symbol of the far more important invisible walls separating the seventy-thousand subcommunities—or is it eighty-thousand now? One day, I firmly believe, there will be as many subcommunities as there are residents in the City.

Thanks to my work, I know the type all too well. A malcontent, a refusenik. A grievance monger, quick as a scampering lemur to take offense. Such people make little sense to me.

I’ve learned pogroms do not require much in the way of organization. Merely ample hate.