--- title: "8 White Settlers Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 8 White Settlers quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best White Settlers sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf0/debby-irving-25569_politics_be-it-europeans-initial-assumption-of-th_67708.jpg" --- > [“Be it Europeans’ initial assumption of the right to invade in the 1600s, the Indian Removal Act in the 1800s, or the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debby-irving/be-it-europeans-initial-assumption-of-the-right-to-invade-in-the/) [Debby Irving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/debby-irving/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf0/debby-irving-25569_politics_be-it-europeans-initial-assumption-of-th_67708.jpg) > [The province was surrounded by powerful tribes of Indians who watched the white settlers with an eager hostility, and seized every occasion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-province-was-surrounded-by-powerful-tribes-of-indians-who-watched/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83e/anonymous-1_white-settlers_the-province-was-surrounded-by-powerful_752333.jpg) > [“They want the Indians eliminated, and the lands opened up to white settlers, but they don't want anybody to get hurt in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-crichton/they-want-the-indians-eliminated-and-the-lands-opened-up-to-white/) [Michael Crichton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-crichton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c48/michael-crichton-694_indians_they-want-the-indians-eliminated-and-the_822481.jpg) > [I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those "smelly blacks"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lewis-nkosi/i-have-seen-white-settlers-in-africa-who-had-sworn-that-they-would/) [Lewis Nkosi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lewis-nkosi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b4/lewis-nkosi-63157_achieve_i-have-seen-white-settlers-in-africa-who_1515883.jpg) > [“A source of continual embarrassment along the American frontier—from the late 1600s until the end of the Indian Wars, in the 1890s—was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-franzen/a-source-of-continual-embarrassment-along-the-american-frontier-from/) [Jonathan Franzen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-franzen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99b/jonathan-franzen-801_war_a-source-of-continual-embarrassment-alon_1811766.jpg) > [Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. It took its name from the Society of Cincinnati, an organization…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-dedman/cincinnati-attracted-its-first-permanent-white-settlers-by-flatboat/) [Bill Dedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-dedman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a64/bill-dedman-3519_attracted_cincinnati-attracted-its-first-permanent_1888820.jpg) > [“This (white settlers) was the section of humanity that was favored in that place, the Indians had no place no more there.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-barry/this-white-settlers-was-the-section-of-humanity-that-was-favored-in/) [Sebastian Barry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-barry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/168/sebastian-barry-3654_indians_this-white-settlers-was-the-section-of-h_2044008.jpg) > [“The white settlers of St. Louis nicknamed their settlement “Mound City” in recognition of the twenty-six Indian mounds they found there, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-weatherford/the-white-settlers-of-st-louis-nicknamed-their-settlement-mound-city/) [Jack Weatherford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-weatherford/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a98/jack-weatherford-17286_indians_the-white-settlers-of-st-louis-nicknamed_2955970.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/white-settlers/#itemlist", "name": "White Settlers Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Be it Europeans’ initial assumption of the right to invade in the 1600s, the Indian Removal Act in the 1800s, or the English-only acts in the 1900s, the white settlers established and the white government of the United States has enforced a model of dominance and assimilation that elevates those who can fit the prescribed mold while excluding and destabilizing those who can’t.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Debby Irving" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/debby-irving/be-it-europeans-initial-assumption-of-the-right-to-invade-in-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf0/debby-irving-25569_politics_be-it-europeans-initial-assumption-of-th_67708.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf0/debby-irving-25569_politics_be-it-europeans-initial-assumption-of-th_67708.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf0/debby-irving-25569_politics_be-it-europeans-initial-assumption-of-th_67708.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Be it Europeans’ initial assumption of the right to invade in the 1600s, the Indian Removal Act in the…” — Debby Irving", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The province was surrounded by powerful tribes of Indians who watched the white settlers with an eager hostility, and seized every occasion to molest them by secret inroad, and often by open assault.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anonymous" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-province-was-surrounded-by-powerful-tribes-of-indians-who-watched/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83e/anonymous-1_white-settlers_the-province-was-surrounded-by-powerful_752333.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83e/anonymous-1_white-settlers_the-province-was-surrounded-by-powerful_752333.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/83e/anonymous-1_white-settlers_the-province-was-surrounded-by-powerful_752333.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The province was surrounded by powerful tribes of Indians who watched the white settlers with an eager…” — Anonymous", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“They want the Indians eliminated, and the lands opened up to white settlers, but they don't want anybody to get hurt in the process. That just ain't possible.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Michael Crichton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-crichton/they-want-the-indians-eliminated-and-the-lands-opened-up-to-white/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c48/michael-crichton-694_indians_they-want-the-indians-eliminated-and-the_822481.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c48/michael-crichton-694_indians_they-want-the-indians-eliminated-and-the_822481.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c48/michael-crichton-694_indians_they-want-the-indians-eliminated-and-the_822481.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“They want the Indians eliminated, and the lands opened up to white settlers, but they don't want anybody to…” — Michael Crichton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I have seen white settlers in Africa who had sworn that they would never sit down to table with those \"smelly blacks\" sit down quite happily with half-nude tribesmen once a country achieves independence. 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According to many writers of the time, including Benjamin Franklin, the reverse never happened: Indians never ran off to join white society. And if a peace treaty required that a tribe give up their adopted members, these members would often have to be put under guard and returned home by force. Inevitably, many would escape to rejoin their Indian families. “Thousands of Europeans are Indians, and we have no examples of even one of those aborigines having from choice become European,” wrote a French-born writer in America named Michel-Guillaume-Saint-Jean de Crèvecoeur in an essay published in 1782.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonathan Franzen" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-franzen/a-source-of-continual-embarrassment-along-the-american-frontier-from/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99b/jonathan-franzen-801_war_a-source-of-continual-embarrassment-alon_1811766.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99b/jonathan-franzen-801_war_a-source-of-continual-embarrassment-alon_1811766.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/99b/jonathan-franzen-801_war_a-source-of-continual-embarrassment-alon_1811766.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A source of continual embarrassment along the American frontier—from the late 1600s until the end of the…” — Jonathan Franzen", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Cincinnati attracted its first permanent white settlers by flatboat in 1788. 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