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Ryan is Currently Reading

Ryan is currently reading

21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act

by Bob Joseph

bookshelves: canadian, history, indigenous, non-fiction, politics, race, currently-reading

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Ryan’s Quotes

“If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

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“There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be reckoning yet ... it may be sooner or it may be later, but it's a coming as sure as the Lord is just”
― Soloman Northup, Twelve Years a Slave

tags: just, punishments, reckoning, sin, slavery

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“Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!”
― Solomon Northup, 12 Years a Slave

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“There is no fool like an educated fool...”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

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“...for the human brain can become the best torture house of all those it has invented, established and used in a millions of years, in millions of lands, on millions of howling creatures.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle

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