Accord Quote by Nelson A. Miles

“The Pilgrims had come to America not to conquer a continent but to re-create their modest communities in Scrooby and in Leiden. When they…

— Nathaniel Philbrick

While the Pilgrims landed on 'Plymouth Rock' in 1620, the Spanish had already settled in to the Southwest beginning in the late 1500s, and…

— Deb Haaland

America was founded by the refuse of the religious fanatics of England, these undesirable elements that came over on the Mayflower. Ignorant, religious fanatics…

— Frank Zappa

“From the legal point of view it was early established that the Indians were the proprietors of all lands which they possessed and cultivated…

— J.H. Elliott

“A simple comparison between the inducements that were given the early Spanish and the early British New World settlers reveals the fundamental difference between…

— David E. Stannard

“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

“They came with a Bible and their religion- stole our land, crushed our spirit... and now tell us we should be thankful to the…

— George Washington

“Christopher Columbus and his brothers were no different from many of the Spanish adventurers of the time. They were a roughhewn lot, who wrote…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba

“Columbus sent home shiploads of Indians to be sold as slaves, but the theologians protested, the Queen's conscience rebelled, and enslavement of the Indians…

— J.H. Elliott

Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“The Pilgrims thought of liberty as the freedom to do what is right, not to decide what is right. In their view, the persecution…

— Robert Tracy McKenzie

“Be it Europeans’ initial assumption of the right to invade in the 1600s, the Indian Removal Act in the 1800s, or the English-only acts…

— Debby Irving