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“As I left Calcutta, it occurred to me that I was returning to a land of lepers, a land of people who had forgotten how to feel, to laugh, to cry, a land haunted by numbness. Could we learn to feel again?”

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Book:The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

“I have never heard of an electromagnetically hypersensitive person recovering from the condition using shielding and Faraday cages, they just seem to become social lepers due to their increasing reactivity to the city environment and addicts to their shielded environment.”

Source: Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity

“People who suffer from mental illness are the lepers of this age! Not all who suffer are limited. Many are very bright. They just need patience and kindness, which is rare in this world!”

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Author:June Stoyer

“Notes on the Leper Colony and Insane Asylums on Robben Island: In the winter, wild North westerly gales sweep in across the Island, battering the shore and bringing with them a dense sea mist that shrouds everything in its path. Despite the light and the foghorn many ships have foundered on those dark rocks. Perhaps this gives rise to the story that it is not only the crying of the seabirds that can be heard on dark winter nights. There are other stories about lost souls...”

Stories Lost Leper Lepers Leper Colony Foghorn Robben Island

Book:Out of mind

Source: Out of mind

“Another confusing thing about Protestants: they ask “What would Jesus do?” then they give themselves Lego man haircuts and vote Republican and avoid the wrong side of town. Jesus was a bearded, long-haired socialist who hung out with lepers; someone those prigs would call a wild man.”

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Book:In Limbo

Source: In Limbo

“People who suffer from mental illness are treated like lepers.”

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Author:June Stoyer