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“And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.”
Source : Adam Hochschild (2011). “King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa”, p.356, Pan Macmillan
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“These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.”
Source : "Cinquain: Triad" l. 1 (1915)
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“Departure should be sudden.”
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“Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.”
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“As my wise friend Didi has more than once observed about life's passages, every departure entails an arrival elsewhere, every arrival implies a departure from afar.”
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“I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure.”
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“Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.”
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“The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.”
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“I was already headed for Hell, I might as well enjoy the ride.”
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“Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.”
Source : George Haven Putnam (2008). “Abraham Lincoln (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.260, ReadHowYouWant.com
