Way of life Quote by Eric Williams

“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

“Here was a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life upon the…

— Upton Sinclair

“the Indian slave was inefficient. The Spaniards discovered that one Negro was worth four Indians.22 A prominent official in Hispaniola insisted in 1518 that…

— Eric Williams

“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

“Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.”

— Angie Thomas

“The tales that white people tell you of their Native servants are conceived in the same spirit. If they had been told that they…

— Isak Dinesen

“The little settlements we lived in-He-Dog, Upper Cut Meat, Parmelee, St. Francis, Belvidere-were places without hope where bodies and souls were being destroyed bit…

— Mary Crow Dog

“struck him as a favorable contrast with his own nation that there was no slavery in India;II and that though the population was divided…

— Will Durant

“admired, even emulated. “You saw for yourselves, the Indian doesn’t need the white man to live,” he went on. “He knows how to make…

— Scott Wallace

“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of a new…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such a chance…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs