How does one help change the treadmill into a road, or better still, a meandering path? - Zoia Horn

Those days [in prison] revealed the banal cruelties that jails create and nurture. I saw people punished not only by being locked up but then by being degraded, treated capriciously, their personal dignity undermined, with no real recourse of appeal for fairness and justice.

Power corrupts people in small as well as big scale, I discovered. People with small powers use little irritants like flea bites, to assert control and punish.

In Hitler's Germany, Jews were forced to wear identifying stars of David on their sleeves. Black people in the United States wore their identification all the time.