Freedom Quote by Philipp Meyer

“I might be killed any day, by whites or hostile Indians, I might be run down by a grizzly or a pack of buffalo…

— Philipp Meyer

“It had become clear to me that the lives of the rich and famous were not so differ from the lies of the Comanches:…

— Philipp Meyer

“Lot of folks was in there for stealing food because everybody was poor and starving, and even though White people couldn’t get your work…

— Jesmyn Ward

“We're like the Comanches was two hundred years ago. We don't know what's goin to show up here come daylight. We don't even know…

— Cormac McCarthy

“I can tell you how exceptionally easy it is to be ignorant of the racial forces that have shaped my life and views, and…

— Debby Irving

“Unlike the white, billions of whom shared the same handful of names, all interchangeable in the end, a Comanche name lived and died with…

— Philipp Meyer

“It was a grand opportunity for the low whites, who had no negroes of their own to scourge. They exulted in such a chance…

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“Hard, dangerous, unhealthy work was better performed by slaves than those who were free. Or who thought themselves so.”

— David Baldacci

“Forty years ago my mother died," he said. "She captured by Comanches, nine years old. Love Indian and wild life so well, no want…

— S.C. Gwynne

“It was never the poverty that deterred me, never the disease, unsanitary conditions, bugs or garbage, those things were never even a thought in…

— Little White Bird

“Just as African Americans had learned that they did not have enough strength to make good the promises of emancipation, working people learned that…

— Howard Zinn

“If you are rich and full-fed, don’t laugh at the impulsiveness of the poor. They were not acting from their souls, but they were…

— Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi