Martin Keith

“Well-being for all is not a dream.”
― Pyotr Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread

“When Joseph died on September 21, 1904, the agency physician reported the cause of death as “a broken heart.”
― Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

“The white man knows how to make everything,” he said, “but he does not know how to distribute it.”
― Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

“I absolutely believe that people are more good on balance than bad,” he said. “All the wars and all of the cruelty and all of the violence. I’m not looking away from any of that, and I still think there’s something beautiful about being what we are. History is soaked in blood. The future probably will be too. But for every atrocity, there’s a thousand small kindnesses that no one noticed. A hundred people who spent their lives loving and caring for each other. A few moments of real grace.”
― James S.A. Corey, Leviathan Falls