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“Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless.”
― North and South
― North and South

“To be sure, they have had the occasional success, but there is little chance that North America will develop a functional land ethic until it finds a way to overcome its irrational addiction to profit.”
― The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
― The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

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