James

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James’s Notes & Highlights

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

17 highlights

Consider, even, an Africa unconquered altogether. Imagine those first Portuguese adventurers approaching the shore, spying on the jungle’s edge through their fitted brass lenses. Imagine that by some miracle of dread or reverence they ...more

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James’s Quotes

“Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may - cost what it may - inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto - "NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS”
― William Lloyd Garrison, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

tags: abolition, slavery

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“Money lost -- little lost. Honour lost -- much lost. Pluck lost -- all lost.”
― E. W. Hornung, Raffles: The Amateur Cracksman

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“I like accuracy for its own sake, strive after it myself, and am sometimes guilty of forcing it upon others.
-Bunny”
― E.W. Hornung, A Thief in the Night

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“If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
― Malcom X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

tags: force, police-brutality, power, resistance, solidarity, violence

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“It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Ilúvatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

tags: music, ocean, sea, water

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