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“You just refuse to leave them alone until they change their minds. Of their own free will.”

Orson Scott Card book Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)

“Andrew Jackson neatly resolved the issue by walking into congress and placing his hand on the Bible they kept there as a reminder of all the virtues they worked so hard to get the voters to believe they possessed.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 19.

“What is the White man? What does he do?
The White man is like a human being, but he crushes all other living things under his feet.
Then why, O Ta-Kumsaw, when I look into your heart, why is it that you do not wish to hurt the White man, that you do not wish to kill the White man?
The White man doesn’t know the evil that he does. The White man doesn’t feel the peace of the land, so how can he tell the little deaths he makes? I can’t blame the White man. But I can’t let him stay. So when I make him leave this land, I won’t hate him.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 2.

“A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.”

Orson Scott Card Hart's Hope

Hart's Hope (1983)

“She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.”

Orson Scott Card book Lovelock

Lovelock (1994)

“I was forgetting how it really was, I was remembering it through common, ordinary eyes, I was remembering it as the boy I was before, but now I remember that it wasn't me being weak or me being naked, or anything else that I should be ashamed of.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, The Memory Of Earth (1992)

““Black with hate,” said Becca. “You are gathering your people with hate.”
“Can you imagine conducting a war with love?” asked Ta-Kumsaw.
“That’s a reason to refuse to make war at all,” she said gently.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 17.

“This is Alvin Smith,” said Cooper. “He’s a man of inestimable abilities, but only because nobody has cared enough to estimate them.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 5.

“Wasn’t that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Red Prophet (1988), Chapter 17.

“Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.”

Orson Scott Card book Homebody

Homebody (1998)

“Perhaps I’m hiding from myself. Perhaps I don’t want to be what I’m supposed to be. Or perhaps I don’t want to keep living the life I already started to live.”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Alvin Journeyman (1995), Chapter 3.

“It never occurred to you that they might be flattering you, because you don't lie.”

Orson Scott Card book Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“She don’t set no store to see a king. Her pa a king back in Africa, and they shoot him dead. Them Portuguese slavers show her what it mean to be a king—it mean you die quick like everybody, and spill blood red like everybody, and cry out loud in pain and scared—oh, fine to be a king, and fine to see one. Do them White folk believe this lie?”

Orson Scott Card

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Prentice Alvin (1989), Chapter 2.

“That's one of those questions, whether human beings are really capable of change, or if all seeming changes are really a matter of framing the existing character in a different moral situation.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)

“Please open your mind to the possibility that I might be an honest man who was himself deceived.”

Orson Scott Card Treasure Box

Treasure Box (1996)

“You'll find out I was never sand at all, but a seed, and out of death I'll make life. You can't break me. And whatever plan you have in mind, you can't make me.”

Orson Scott Card book Stone Tables

Stone Tables (1997)

“I don't mind dying before you do. In fact, I rather prefer it that way.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, Earthfall (1995)

“A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.”

Orson Scott Card

Quoted by Mary Robinette Kowal in &quot; Precogs and Ray Guns Have No Place In True SciFi http://blogs.amctv.com/scifi-scanner/2009/09/science-fantasy.php&quot;. <br class="br">Attributed

“Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do.”

Orson Scott Card

Homecoming saga, The Ships Of Earth (1994)