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Ryan is Currently Reading

Ryan is currently reading

21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act

by Bob Joseph

bookshelves: canadian, history, indigenous, non-fiction, politics, race, currently-reading

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Ryan’s Quotes

“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

tags: behavior, evil, personality

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“There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be reckoning yet ... it may be sooner or it may be later, but it's a coming as sure as the Lord is just”
― Soloman Northup, Twelve Years a Slave

tags: just, punishments, reckoning, sin, slavery

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“I ask no paradise on high, With cares on earth oppressed,
The only heaven for which I sigh, Is rest, eternal rest.”
― Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave

tags: slavery

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“...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

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“Poverty is a relatively mild disease for even a very flimsy American soul, but uselessness will kill strong and weak souls alike, and kill every time.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

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