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“You are broken. But it is broken things that are the sharpest. The deadliest. It is broken things that are the most unexpected, and the most underestimated”
― A Sky Beyond the Storm
― A Sky Beyond the Storm
“Our government may at some time be in the hands of a bad man. When in the hands of a good man it is all well enough. . . . We ought to have our government so shaped that even when in the hands of a bad man we shall be safe.”
― Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
― Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
“We are doomed, you and I. To offer more love than we will ever be given.”
― A Sky Beyond the Storm
― A Sky Beyond the Storm
“Teaching children about great men enforced a sense of a great nation, a version of history which could be distributed along the length and breadth of vast empires. Controlling access to the past controls populations in the present, and determining who writes history can affect thought and behaviour. Famously the Nazis created a version of German history which cherry-picked and repackaged information so as to benefit the regime's agenda.”
― Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it
― Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of it
“How much pain exists in the world because we cannot get past what has been done to us, because we insist on inflicting pain right back?”
― A Sky Beyond the Storm
― A Sky Beyond the Storm
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