Be thankful Quote by Helen Hunt Jackson

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would…

— Helen Hunt Jackson

“We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the…

— Andrew Carnegie

“They were just little families cooking beans and planting and hunting a deer now and then, and having babies and laying their old folks…

— Nancy E. Turner

What we have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took a proud…

— Richard M. Nixon

Taking it all in all and after all, negro life in Washington is a promise rather than a fulfillment. But it is worthy of…

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have…

— Frederick Douglass

“Nothing as white as the white girl an Indian boy loves.”

— Sherman Alexie

“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

“The white race increasingly deserves the name given by the American Indians: palefaces.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“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

“There was one difference I would come to realize, between white kids and Indians. Among white kids there are tattletales everywhere. Indians? An Indian…

— Brady Udall