{"quotes":[{"text":"The sound of diesel fuel rushing through grimy pistons and cylinders below a morning-fogged window bored through his ears like a deep-water drill bit, and the thump of his own heartbeat cursed him for breaking one of his many rules.","author":"Luke Taylor","tags":["air","car","city","coal","curse","diesel","drill-bit","fog","gasoline","grimy","heart","heatbeat","man","noise","petrol","pollution","rules","smog","street","vehicle","window"],"id":1543,"author_id":"Luke+Taylor"},{"text":"I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["canada","canada-day","cape-breton","coal","country","hazardous","home","life","living","nova-scotia","patriot","pollution","steel","sydney-tar-ponds","toxic"],"id":6498,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"A child has an ingrained fancy for coal, not for the gross materialistic reason that it builds up fires by which we cook and are warmed, but for the infinitely nobler and more abstract reason that it blacks his fingers.","author":"G.K. Chesterton","tags":["children","coal","the-coloured-lands"],"id":31615,"author_id":"G.K.+Chesterton"},{"text":"I pulled the sheet off their faces. Their faces were black with coal dust and didn't look like anything was wrong with them except they were dirty. The both of them had smiles on their faces. I thought maybe one of them had told a joke just before they died and, pain and all, they both laughed and ended up with a smile. Probably not true but but it made me feel good to think about it like that, and when the Sister came in I asked her if I could clean their faces and she said, 'no, certainly not!' but I said, 'ah, c'mon, it's me brother n' father, I want to,' and she looked at me and looked at me, and at last she said, 'of course, of course, I'll get some soap and water.'When the nun came back she helped me. Not doing it, but more like showing me how, and taking to me, saying things like 'this is a very handsome man' and 'you must have been proud of your brother' when I told her how Charlie Dave would fight for me, and 'you're lucky you have another brother'; of course I was, but he was younger and might change, but she talked to me and made it all seem normal, the two of us standing over a dead face and cleaning the grit away. The only other thing I remember a nun ever saying to me was, 'Mairead, you get to your seat, this minute!","author":"Sheldon Currie","tags":["accident","black","brother","canada","cape-breton","coal","coal-mine","death","depression","disaster","dusty","face","father","fear","friendship","grief","grit","hospital","joke","lonely","loss","lost","mine","mourning","nova-scotia","nun","religion","rock","sadness","smile","soul","teenage","wash"],"id":61726,"author_id":"Sheldon+Currie"},{"text":"Well we're waiting here in Allentown,For the Pennsylvania we never found,For the promises our teachers gave,If we worked hard,If we behaved...So the graduations hang on the wall,But they never really helped us at all,No they never taught us what was real,Iron and coke,And chromium steel,And we're waiting here in Allentown...But they've taken all the coal from the ground,And the union people crawled away...","author":"Billy Joel","tags":["allentown","america","blue-collar","canada","chromium","coal","coke","economic","education","environment","factory","hippie","iron","lies","manufacture","mill","mining","pennsylvania","pittsburgh","plant","school","steel","steel-mill","teacher","train","tutor"],"id":79893,"author_id":"Billy+Joel"},{"text":"The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.","author":"Rivera Sun","tags":["activism","climate-change","coal","courage","earth","ecology","inspirational","nature","revolution","science","social-justice"],"id":106970,"author_id":"Rivera+Sun"},{"text":"With Pollution, emotion is irrelevant, it is not their nature,” Mearth sighed, making a face as if she were talking to an ignorant small child. “I didn’t create them, humans created the Pollution. Cheryl Nobel, Alecto Steele, Albert Sanders, Olivia Campbell, all my pretty little Representations, there aren’t many of them left these days but they’re still very dangerous! They’re here to tell society all about its mistakes! You don’t understand the world of Representations.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["alberta","canada","cape-breton","chemicals","chernobyl","coal","death","disturbing","dying","earth","entity","environment","fear","green","grief","hazardous","hippie","imaginary","imagination","loss","love-canal","mother-earth","nature","nova-scotia","pollution","recycle","representation","scared","smog","steel","storm","suicide","sydney-tar-ponds","tar","tar-sands","toxic-waste"],"id":111589,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"Yeah, you’re right about having entire rooms full of film and photos… in that Sydney Mines house I have a darkroom, I have boxes of film and home movie footage… I have a few projectors, I have piles of Kodachrome slides… I like photographs. The world is always running away from society and the only way to keep the stuff that’s happened in the past is by taking photographs, I can keep memories of things alive with photographs,” Alecto responded. “People say that a time machine can’t be invented, but they’ve already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world’s first time machines… The steel mill, the coal mines, the train tracks, the smog in the sky, I’ve been able to rescue it on super-8 and Kodachrome, and no one can remediate those photographs, I can keep them as long as I want to.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["canada","cape-breton","capture","coal","coal-mine","darkroom","digital","film","industrial","kodachrome","kodak","memories","nostalgia","nova-scotia","photo","photograph","polaroid","pollution","smog","steel-mill","super-8","train"],"id":138248,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"Go to God with your coal, and He will set them to blazing fire.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["assure","blazing","blessings","broken","build","coal","empty","fire","fulfill","give","god","life","little","miracle","nothingness","power","prayers","provide","redeemer","restore","safety","satisfy"],"id":150271,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["anger","animosity","antipathy","aversion","bad-temper","bitterness","burn","burning-anger","coal","deception","dislike","enmity","forgive","forgiveness","glow","glowing","grievance","grudge","grudges","hardhearted","heart","malice","red","trick","unforgiving"],"id":170158,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}