American revolution Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“The Indians must conform to 'the white man’s ways', peaceably if they will, forcibly if they must. They must adjust themselves to their environment,…

— Thomas Morgan U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs

At no point, at a very important point: that of having convinced the Indians that they can do things.

— Indira Gandhi

Notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy with which of late years the Indians have been sometimes abandoned to their enemies, it is not to be doubted…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803â1882

As to the Indians, the guiding principle was, promise them anything just so long as they get out of the way.

— Stephen Ambrose

I hope the conduct of Indians can become an example for the rest of the world to follow.

— Sonam Wangchuk

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do…

— Evo Morales

“Most Indians' deliberate, cultivated, amoral innocence about what is happening there, what is being done in their name, becomes hard to bear.”

— Arundhati Roy

The confidence that we Indians are suddenly infused with while doing something wrong is absolutely commendable.

— Kailash Kher

“The tragedy of India is that we frequently have no respect for Indians, for Indian efforts and for Indian successes.”

— Verghese Kurien

We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity…

— Michel de Montaigne

The American public has difficulty believing ... [that] injustice continues to be inflicted upon Indian people because Americans assume that the sympathy and tolerance…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

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