Children Quote by Phyllis Schlafly

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

— Edward Abbey

People have the idea of missionaries as going out with the Bible and hitting natives with it. It's not really what they were doing.…

— Colin Firth

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

— Huston Smith

“Catholic missionaries labored earnestly to convert indians. They fervently believed that God expected them to save the Indians' souls by convincing them to abandon…

— James L. Roark

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

— Robert Fulghum

Missionaries serve to make life better for God's children.

— Russell M. Nelson

What but education has advanced us beyond the condition of our indigenous neighbors? And what chains them to their present state of barbarism and…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The missionaries did not come to Foochow to acquire property, learn the language, or even to establish amicable relations with their Chinese neighbors. Nor,…

— Ellsworth C. Carlson

The fighting back by indigenous people started in 1900: OK, they've cornered us. Our population is almost gone; they've defeated us. From there, the…

— John Ralston Saul

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

We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it…

— Henry David Thoreau

To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more…

— Indira Gandhi