Common Quote by John Lawson

The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians,…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

They weren't immigrating to some existing society; indeed, they often did whatever they could do to destroy whatever existed here in the way of…

— Samuel P. Huntington

The Indians had to be either killed, or herded into reservations, which were essentially concentration camps, and forgotten. Their history had to be absolutely…

— Richard Rodriguez

The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to…

— John Sutter

The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern…

— Stewart Udall

“India’s villages were not self-reliant republics that lived in blissful isolation. They were networked and connected, and it was the destruction of Indian industry…

— Shashi Tharoor

It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will…

— Andrew Jackson

“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

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

The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why…

— Dee Brown

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

If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member…

— Peter Singer