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“From him I learned who those legislating morality and pretending to be more virtuous than the rest of us really are.”
― Against the Loveless World
― Against the Loveless World
“She drove me home in silence. Back then, there was always silence. I couldn't speak up, I realize now, because protest requires hope.”
― Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
― Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
“At school, my science teacher talked about the ozone layer even as aerosol hairspray kept clouding the bathroom stalls. I tried to tell Mom about climate change, but she acted like I was gullible. If I was mad about losing our land, I was even angrier about what they'd done to it. While I still didn't know about the massacres, I knew enough to feel robbed. Manhatten was purchased with beads. Valuable furs had been traded for whiskey. White people used empty promises as tender, and in exchange, we Indians got blood quantum, our lineages tracked like thoroughbreds or dogs, destined to be turned into glue.”
― Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
― Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
“And so the days pass. I keep waiting for something to happen, for the ease I feel to end, but each day follows on much like the one before.”
― Foster
― Foster
“150 years later, Constantinople suffers an even worse fate. The emperor Justinian, faced with similar violence, the Nika revolt of 532, was encouraged by his wife, Theodora, to send in troops. Between 30,000 and 50,000 citizens are believed to have been massacred. It was the arbitrary exercise of this absolute power that was most unsettling. The fact that Justinian supposed himself to be a quintessentially Christian monarch made no difference. It was, after all, fully accepted that God might act punitively, and there were dozens of Old Testament texts to back the point. So why should his representative on earth be different? In any case, as the contemporary historian proposes, the king did not see it as murder, as the victims did not share his beliefs.”
― The Closing Of The Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason by Charles Freeman
― The Closing Of The Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason by Charles Freeman
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