Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
“These men flocked to the plains, and were rather stimulated than retarded by the danger of an Indian war. This was another… — William T. Sherman Copy Share Image
“I want to say that further you are not a great chief of this country. That you have no following, no power,… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
“As you know, I have always been curious about our immortality... how it feels to live on and on through time....I need… — Beth Fantaskey Copy Share Image
“The steam trains crossed the country, the gleaming tracks clumsy sutures across wounded miles of stolen land.” — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
It's not greed and ambition that makes wars--it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or manifest… — Paddy Chayefsky Copy Share Image
We've been playing in the sandbox of creation for millions of years. We ruin one environment, we move on to the next… — Anohni Copy Share Image
“The first secretary of defense, General Henry Knox, said that what we’re doing to the native population is worse than what the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Now, however, Cooper’s romanticism was a receding memory, a newly muscular America replacing it with a post–Civil War vision of Manifest Destiny.… — Bob Drury Copy Share Image
“Although most Americans believed in Manifest Destiny, few could agree on exactly which lands the United States was supposed to govern.” — Charles W. Carey Jr Copy Share Image
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea… — Francis John McConnell Copy Share Image
I think that what led largely to Trump's election was the manifestation of the too-common mindset that facts don't matter; in other… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
“The myth of America’s religious founding thus provided an explanation for those who needed to sanctify the past before they could go… — Steven K. Green Copy Share Image
The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God,… — Aaron Huey Copy Share Image
“...I do not function too well on emotional motivations. I am wary of them. And I am wary of a lot of… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
To be an American is to be indoctrinated with racism, violence, capitalism and manifest destiny, the principles upon which the land of… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
“When the culture of the East, its chief characteristic, is added to the strength of body and the strength of mind of… — Charles Edwin Winter Copy Share Image
“Both nations have an idea of Manifest Destiny and a concept of the Monroe Doctrine in their ideological arsenal, and both are… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
