“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.

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American science fiction novelist 1951

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