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I Know This Much Is True

by Wally Lamb (Goodreads Author)

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“Because they don't know [the anger is] there inside them. [...] They think they are sweet reasonableness, and it's you that's in the wrong, just by being, and not being like them, or looking like them, or wanting their kind of life.”
― Margaret Laurence, The Diviners

tags: different, life, other, outcast, weirdness

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“You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more. [...] My friends, if you took me away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land, I wish to be an old man here. [...] I have not wished to give even a part of it to the Great Father [the President]. Though he were to give me a million dollars I would not give him this land. [...] When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us. [...] My children have been exterminated; my brother has been killed.”
― Standing Bear

tags: aboriginals, first-nations, first-peoples, genocide, native-americans, natives, poncas, u-s-history, us-history

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“So often as you set out to build the temple of peace you are left lonesome; you are left discouraged; you are left bewildered.

Well, that is the story of life. And the thing that makes me happy is that I can hear a voice crying through the vista of time, saying: "It may not come today or it may not come tomorrow, but it is well that it is within thine heart. It’s well that you are trying." You may not see it. The dream may not be fulfilled, but it’s just good that you have a desire to bring it into reality. It’s well that it’s in thine heart.

Thank God this morning that we do have hearts to put something meaningful in. Life is a continual story of shattered dreams.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

tags: caring, dreams, god, goodness, heart, kindness, life, meaning, peace, struggle

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“There are people on whom even clean linen looks indecent.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons

tags: bad, evil, indecency, malice, people

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“We have been south and suffered a great deal down there. Many have died of diseases which we have no name for. Our hearts looked and longed for this country where we were born. There are only a few of us left, and we only wanted a little ground, where we could live. We left our lodges standing, and ran away in the night. The troops followed us. I rode out and told the troops we did not want to fight; we only wanted to go north, and if they would let us alone we would kill no one. The only reply we got was a volley. After that we had to fight our way, but we killed none who did not fire at us first. My brother, Dull Knife, took one-half of the band and surrendered near Fort Robinson. [...] They gave up their guns, and then the whites killed them all.”
― Little Wolf

tags: aboriginals, cheyennes, first-nations, first-peoples, genocide, native-americans, natives, u-s-history, us-history

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