Lanark-county Quote by Arlene Stafford-Wilson

I had been reading a lot about pioneers in Australia and the colonization of Australia, and pioneers in Virginia and the early settlers in…

— Ben Richards

“The early settlers amazed her--they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whipping posts and indentured…

— Jennifer Vanderbes

“It wasn't until I worked in the Perth Hospital kitchen in the 1970s that I began hearing stories about the ghosts that haunted their…

— Arlene Stafford-Wilson

“Some things were done a certain way and they had been done that same way for ages. Most of the time it was a…

— Arlene Stafford-Wilson

“We had some memorable times, on those long, hot summer nights, along the shores of the mighty Rideau; but we were by no means…

— Arlene Stafford-Wilson

“The plants and animals all around us were waking from a long sleep, and our yard was slowly transformed into a carpet of soft…

— Arlene Stafford-Wilson

“The global Indigenous cause reached a major milestone in 2007 when the UN General Assembly passed the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a…

— Theodore Roosevelt

There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our economy is…

— John F. Kennedy

On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this…

— Ken Salazar

It did not come naturally; in fact, it would be difficult to conceive of any more dogmatic and less tolerant people than the first…

— Paul Harris

It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements…

— Edward Said