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There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness a

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us. – Geraldine Brooks

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The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure. – Geraldine Brooks

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Imagination
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Geraldine Brooks
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My mothers family were full-on Irish Catholics – faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over womens rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old. – Geraldine Brooks

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Faith
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September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage. – Geraldine Brooks

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Courage
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So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter. – Zora Neale Hurston

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Courage cant see around corners but goes around them anyway. – Mignon McLaughlin

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Courage

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed. – David Viscott

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Courage

If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage. – Jean-Bertrand Aristide

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