Dutch Quote by Dave Beard

“The Thanksgiving tradition we celebrate today with a feast actually commemorates a betrayal that happened two years after the first arrival of the colonists.…

— Christopher L. Hayes

Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left.

— Jay Leno

Thanksgiving is a holiday that brought together two different cultures. The pilgrims came here with the best intentions. They decided to flee an oppressive…

— Christopher Titus

America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they…

— Andrew Lam

“The Pilgrims thought of liberty as the freedom to do what is right, not to decide what is right. In their view, the persecution…

— Robert Tracy McKenzie

Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.

— Mason Cooley

“The Pilgrims had come to America not to conquer a continent but to re-create their modest communities in Scrooby and in Leiden. When they…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

“No longer mindful of the debt they owed the Pokanokets, without whom their parents would never have endured their first year in America, some…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

The Chinamen built the railroad, the Indians saved the Pilgrim, And in return, the Pilgrim killed 'em. They call it it Thanksgiving, I call…

— Nas

Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.

— Augusten Burroughs

They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did.

— Will Cuppy

The Pilgrims were unified by their religious zeal, but they couldn't fish, they didn't know how to hunt, and they were bad at farming.…

— Mark Kurlansky