6 Quotes & Sayings By Jim Fergus

Jim Fergus is a British journalist and author. He was born in London and studied English at university before starting a career in journalism with the Sunday Times and The Guardian. Jim has travelled the world as a foreign correspondent, and is an expert on Cuba and American politics. His first book, Havana: City of Ghosts - Travels Through Fidel's Revolution won the Orwell Prize for political writing Read more

His book The Devil's Doctor: The Strange Story of Doctor Josef Mengele won the 2011 Costa Book of the Year Award for non-fiction. His most recent book, Inside the Minds: The FBI's Elite Serial Crimes Unit, won the 2012 Sherlock Award for Best True Crime Book. He also writes on travel and has contributed to publications such as National Geographic Traveller and Conde Nast Traveller.

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That's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks Jim Fergus
Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to...
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Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will. Jim Fergus
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...the Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primaevl solitude would be like talking in church. Jim Fergus
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I, personally, have resolved never to display weakness, to be always strong and firm and forthright, to show neither fear nor uncertainty-- no matter how fearful and uncertain I may be inside; I see no other way to survive this ordeal. Jim Fergus
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Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that. Jim Fergus