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• This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.
• Who will find peace with the lands? The future of humankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives…
• Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.
• Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make…
• For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.
• The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all…
• Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?
• Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.
• Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the…
• As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the…
• The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white…
• If the tribal peoples actually represented Western origins at a much earlier time, it was exceedingly valuable that they should be studied…

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