“Will water become the new gold of the coming age?
Will man lust after the precious commodity in an ever aggressive manner?
Will nature meet man head on and show him who is boss?”
“Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red.”
Source: The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
“In the middle of the cemetery is a grassy plane, strangely vacant. There are no granite tombs or crumbling concrete, just a sun-washed treeless patch of green known as "No Man's Land." Here 1,500 unidentified bodies are buried. At one time, their skin burned with yellow fever; now they lie in a cool, dark place where long ago their arms and legs, hands and feet, were intertwined for eternity.”
Source: The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
“There is no such things as a 'harmless' racial preference. Sexual racism is a living, breathing creature amidst our society today.”
Source: Not Your Yellow Fantasy: Deconstructing the Legacy of Asian Fetishization
“To fetishize, reject, and emasculate individuals based on their race is to objectify and dehumanise them, transforming them into nothing but objects meant to appease the desires of the user.”
Source: Not Your Yellow Fantasy: Deconstructing the Legacy of Asian Fetishization
“Those words they throw at you and which stick onto you -- I know they hurt. But remember, you are beautiful for who you are. Not for your ethnicity or your relationship to others. Don't play into a part society creates for you or feel as if you need to be a certain way to be loved and accepted. You are not their object, their doll, or their magical dream. You are not their yellow fantasy.”
Source: Not Your Yellow Fantasy: Deconstructing the Legacy of Asian Fetishization
“Progress was real progress only when it evolved naturally and thoughtfully from the history of human experience and accumulated wisdom. When it was imposed in contempt for that experience and wisdom, then progress was in fact radical destruction.
...Carson began to understand that what he sought was an escape from the hubris of humanity, from the endless discontent of those who believed in one utopia or another in spite of the fact that history showed utopian thinking to lead inevitably to disaster and often to mass murder on an industrial scale. But of course there could be no escape from the overweening pride and arrogance of the species. You could withdraw, remake your life with a small circle of friends who didn’t wish to silence and punish their fellow countrymen with whom they disagreed, who knew the grievous threat to peace that arose from contempt for others, from an inflated self-esteem that became vainglory. But there was no town remote enough, no fortress walls high enough to protect you from mad ideas with mass appeal.”
Source: Devoted
“As a human being, I feel the duty to contribute to the wisdom of the entire humane race—as I’m a representative of the humanity living on the Earth.
I’m wondering why most people do not feel any similar drive?”
Source: Indigo Diaries: A Series of Novels
“Every nation, every woman and every man must work out their own salvation.”
Source: The Education Decree
“Our story began with uncertainty, and with uncertainty, it ended—not with a bang, but a whisper.”
Source: We Are Everyone