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“The margin between collusion and respect can be narrow,” Tong said.
He said, “Please tell me, Sutty, is the institutionalised homophobia very difficult for you?” “I grew up with it.” “Under the Unists.” “Not only the Unists.”
Where my guides lead me in kindness I follow, follow lightly, and there are no footprints in the dust behind us.
She turned and went on, telling herself that she should be sorry for him. He was sincere. Most bigots are sincere. The stupid, arrogant fool, trying to tell her that religion was dangerous! But he was merely parroting Dovzan propaganda.
the Telling was a religion it was very different from Terran religions, since it entirely lacked dogmatic belief, emotional frenzy, deferral of reward to a future life, and sanctioned bigotry.
me. Tell him that belief is the wound that knowledge heals.”
“Though bigots have small ears.”
There’s a Hainish parable of the Mirror. If the glass is whole, it reflects the whole world, but broken, it shows only fragments, and cuts the hand that holds it.
