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‘They screwed with democracy. I’m not going to lose much sleep when democracy screws them back.’
“Because if star travel is so easy that it can be achieved in three days—or less, depending how long it took them to detect Blackbird’s appearance—then the galaxy is full, and species must compete over limited space and resources. The material conditions dictate it. We must assume that subjugation or extermination are the normal result of first contact.”
― Exordia
― Exordia
“As I write these words, multiple genocides are in progress. I feel no certainty for the future. Half my nation is so in thrall to its own bigoted fantasies that I neither expect nor particularly want the United States to survive.”
― Authority
― Authority
“What would you think if I said that, by cosmic coincidence, your species is destined to liberate the galaxy?” “I would call total bullshit. The inbred porn apes? No way. We can’t even save ourselves.” “Good. You’re learning. The story of man is a story of mediocrity.”
― Exordia
― Exordia
“Anna lies there paralyzed in night terror, crushed by the knowledge that this thing is an abomination, a curse upon all those who see it, a mistake the universe wishes it could correct.”
― Exordia
― Exordia
“Pervasive violence and dispossession are more than sidebars or parentheses in the story of American history. They call into question its central thesis. The exclusion of Native Americans was codified in the Constitution, maintained throughout the antebellum era, and legislated into the twentieth century: far from being incidental, it enabled the development of the United States. U.S. history as we currently know it does not account for the centrality of Native Americans.”
― The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
― The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
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