Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millenium, specifically the essay on multiplicity.

I’m rooting for zakat

Every time a bunch of kids got massacred at an elementary school these guys were screaming in our faces before the bodies were even cold that they couldn't give up their guns in case the exact thing they're cheering on were to happen someday

I know there are bigger problems and bigger stakes here but I will never not be mad for my earnest students who tried to do what we taught them to do — use their voices to make the world better and speak for those being silenced — who were instead threatened w/ discipline and told to shut up.