Politics Quote by Debby Irving

“No matter how thoroughly Native Americans acculturated, they could not succeed in white society. Whites would not let them. "Indians were always regarded as…

— James W. Loewen

“A source of continual embarrassment along the American frontier—from the late 1600s until the end of the Indian Wars, in the 1890s—was a phenomenon…

— Jonathan Franzen

“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.…

— Michael Crichton

The white people have no right to take the land from the Indians, because the Indians had it first.

— Tecumseh

“This (white settlers) was the section of humanity that was favored in that place, the Indians had no place no more there. Their tickets…

— Sebastian Barry

“What did the Revolution mean to the Native Americans, the Indians? They had been ignored by the fine words of the Declaration, had not…

— Howard Zinn

“manufacturing false hierarchies based on race and gender in order to enforce a brutal class system is a very long story. Our modern capitalist…

— Naomi Klein

The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful in the…

— Howard Zinn

“By the early eighteenth century, every Virginia county had a militia of landless Whites “ready in case of any sudden eruption of Indians or…

— Ibram X. Kendi

America was founded on a genocide, on the unquestioned assumption of the right of white Europeans to exterminate a resident, technologically backward, colored population…

— Susan Sontag

The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.

— Patrisse Cullors

“The Indians must conform to 'the white man’s ways', peaceably if they will, forcibly if they must. They must adjust themselves to their environment,…

— Thomas Morgan U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs