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Five Smooth Stones
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"Five Smooth Stones" Quotes

"Five Smooth Stones" by Ann Fairbairn tells the story of David Champlain, a Black man who rises from poverty to become a civil rights leader, navigating love, loss, and racial injustice in mid-20th-century America.

Quotes

What is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives?

Ann Fairbairn

resiliencestrength

We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate— thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

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forgivenesshumilitylove

It is easier to hate than to love; and it is stronger than love.

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hatestrength

The only way to change things is to shoot the men who arrange things.

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revolutionchange

There is in the nature of things, more than meets the eye.

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mystery

Ignorance is the root and stem of all evil.

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ignoranceevil

The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end, all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.

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deathmemories

Life is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice.

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lifechoices

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

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truthfreedom

We each survive in our own way.

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survival