Settlers Quote by Christina Baker Kline

“there were over thirty thousand Wabanakis living on the East Coast in 1600 and that 90 percent of them had died by 1620, almost…

— Christina Baker Kline

One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers…

— Albert Bushnell Hart

“In the 18th century, cheap, unregulated spirits flooded the market, resulting in more individuals turning to alcoholism. The wave of new immigrants—groups like the…

— Charles River Editors

While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman.…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

— Arthur Erickson

“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

I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.

— Steven Biko

The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

It's interesting to think about the history of Israel in relation to the history of the U.S.. There were Native Americans living here that…

— Jill Soloway