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“The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others.”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
“[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn't exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are.”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
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