Federal government Quote by Jonathan D. Greenberg

“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

One was a horrible case called Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe which denied tribes the right to criminally prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes on…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

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

You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There was a…

— Noam Chomsky

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

“A system which looks to the extinction of a race is too abhorrent for a Nation to indulge in,” Grant told Congress in his…

— Ron Chernow

For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“Jackson himself described how the treaties were obtained: “. . . we addressed ourselves feelingly to the predominant and governing passion of all Indian…

— Howard Zinn

“Prison presented a solution: jobs for whites, and warehousing for blacks. Mass incarceration “widened the income gap between white and black Americans,”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was taken by…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my actions) they…

— Rosa Parks

“Despite all of the time he spent in Big Heart's, Wilson had never come to understand the social lives of Indians. He did not…

— Sherman Alexie