3 Quotes & Sayings By Annabel Lyon

Annabel Lyon is a lawyer at the Center for Law and Social Policy in Washington, DC. She has practiced law for more than ten years, focusing on civil rights, access to justice, and women’s rights. She is the co-author of "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" (New Press, 2012) and "Martial Law: Resisting Bush Administration Torture."

The greatest virtue consists in flourishing to the greatest of...
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The greatest virtue consists in flourishing to the greatest of our capacities. Annabel Lyon
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You who understand what a human mind can be, how can you bear it? I don't have the hundredth part of your mind and there are days when I think I'll go mad. I can feel it. Or hear it. It's more like hearing something creeping along the walls, just behind my head, getting closer and closer. A big insect, maybe a scorpion. A dry skittering, that's what madness sounds like to me. Annabel Lyon