Afflicted Quote by F. Sionil Jose

“In many cases, this doomed the refugees to starvation. Farmers, therefore, tended to stay put and fight to the bitter end. 12. Tribal warfare…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.

— F. Sionil Jose

“offers numerous cautionary tales of kingdoms, cultures, and empires that squandered their soil and found themselves with nothing left to live on. From the…

— Judith D. Schwartz

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?

— Edward Hoagland

I lived in grass huts in a jungle in the Philippines for three weeks with tribal people.

— Evangeline Lilly

I realized pretty quickly just how big and aggressive some of the mountains were down in Nagano Prefecture.

— Travis Rice

Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond…

— Hugh Miller

My father grew up quite poor actually in a small farming village in South India. His grandfather was a farmer, his father was a…

— Vivek Murthy

What a shame that Christianity had come here!If the white man had not intruded where he was not wanted, where he did not belong,…

— Margaret Craven

Chiapas has had its problems for many centuries. The different Indian tribes that live there have always fought among themselves.

— Ricardo Salinas Pliego

“Over the forty-two years that the Rice family lived in Missouri during the 19th century, the family evolved from poor dirt farmers to be…

— Andrew Himes

“Every corner of the island was ransacked; every human being that could be found, was slain or carried into captivity. Nothing was to be…

— William Deans