QUOTES
For
shame! For shame! You dare to cry out Liberty, when you hold us in places against
our will, driving us from place to place as if we were beasts.
I
would place all the Indians of Nevada on ships in our harbor, take them to New
York and land them there as immigrants, that they might be received with open
arms....
Oh for
shame! You who are educated by a Christian government in the art of war; the practice
of whose profession makes you natural enemies of the savages, so called by you.
Yes, you, who call yourselves the great civilization; you who have knelt upon
Plymouth Rock, covenanting with God to make this land the home of the free and
the brave. Ah, then you rise from your bended knees and seizing the welcoming
hands of those who are the owners of this land, which you are not, your carbines
rise upon the bleak shore, and your so-called civilization sweeps inland from
the oceans wave; but oh, my God! Leaving its pathway marked by crimson lines of
blood and strewed the bones of two races, the inheritor and the invader; and I
am crying out to you for justice -- yes, pleading for the far-off plains of the
West"
"If you
make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. . . . Be kind to bad and
good, for you don't know your own heart."
