White people Quote by Sarah Vowell

“If God really loved Indians, he would have made us white people.”

— Sherman Alexie

“They want the Indians eliminated, and the lands opened up to white settlers, but they don't want anybody to get hurt in the process.…

— Michael Crichton

“They were just little families cooking beans and planting and hunting a deer now and then, and having babies and laying their old folks…

— Nancy E. Turner

“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

“By the early eighteenth century, every Virginia county had a militia of landless Whites “ready in case of any sudden eruption of Indians or…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Tecumseh, a Shawnee chief and noted orator, tried to unite the Indians against the white invasion: The way, and the only way, to check…

— Howard Zinn

“The first time I saw my father-in-law's cotton, I though of the Original Sin, gardening being the root of the South's downfall.”

— Michael Lee West

“Virginia’s 1705 code mandated that planters provide freed White servants with fifty acres of land. The resulting White prosperity was then attributed to White…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“You know, Indians don’t attack whites just because they like to or because it’s their nature,” Possuelo said, imparting a quick civics lesson. “They…

— Scott Wallace

“That was a big misunderstanding. The Indians thought that the white man’s God had powerful medicine, to be able to give white people guns…

— Win Blevins

“Of course, ever since white people showed up and brought along their Christianity and their fears of eccentricity, Indians have gradually lost all of…

— Sherman Alexie

“...the values ascribed to the Indian will depend on what the white writer feels about Nature, and America has always had mixed feelings about…

— Margaret Atwood