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A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice QUOTES

1 " To read Shakespeare is to feel encompassed -- the plays contain practically every word I know, practically every character type I have ever met, and practically every idea I have ever had. "

― Kenji Yoshino , A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice

2 " Peter Brook’s production with Laurence Olivier as Titus was one of the great theatrical experiences of the 1950s "

― Kenji Yoshino , A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice

3 " One reason current discussions of justice are so impoverished is that our heterogeneous society does not have many shared texts. Shakespeare's plays are among the few secular texts that remain common enough and complex enough to sustain these conversation. His answers to our dilemmas may not "bear on all points." Yet they teach us not to underestimate the action of the flower. "

― Kenji Yoshino , A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice

4 " What is needed is not sight, but insight—I need to look at your visual “impairment” and infer that my own impairment might be the same or worse. "

― Kenji Yoshino , A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice