More from Orson Scott Card

  1. He isn't insane, he's simply as trapped in his life as I am in mine. That makes us friends
  2. What difference does it make, whether we keep our silence because [they] force us or because we're afraid they might force us?
  3. Out of respect for custom he treats me as if all women were equally worthless. He gives custom more respect than he gives me
  4. I'll be dead and you'll think about this day and wonder which of us was more the slave, you or me!
  5. We can wash people in the water all we want, but we can never wash their parents out of their hearts
  6. Humans feel compassion primarily for those they conceive of as being part of themselves
  7. Today, I saw a spark of decency. Lets blow on that spark and give it fuel
  8. Humans had to evolve what no other primate had: a sense of identity with a group so powerful that it could swallow up the individual identi…

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