"I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know nothing of the kind has ever been attempted before in fiction."

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Source : "A literature of our own" by Julie Bindel, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2008.

Radclyffe Hall

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“Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life.”
“Much will have to change in Canada if the country is to stay the same.”

Source : Abraham Rotstein (1973). “The precarious homestead: essays on economics, technology and nationalism”
“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”

Source : Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.196, Zed Books
“Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.”

Source : Jones Very (1839). “Essays and Poems”, p.89
“But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me.”
“The memory is perpetually looking back when we have nothing present to entertain us. It is like those repositories in animals that are filled with food, on which they may ruminate when their present pastures fail.”
“All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.”
“But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.”

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