Gerard Colby > Quotes

“In denying the Indians’ racial identity, Tax was providing a scholarly rationale for undermining their untitled land claims and hastening their assimilation as a cheap labor force.”
― Gerard Colby, Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil

“Latin America’s Indians were one of Nelson’s major instruments in proving his worth to President Roosevelt in a time of cabinet shake-ups and resignations in Washington between 1943 and 1944. In his drive to extract the most strategic resources from Latin America with the least expense, he spared no means.”
― Gerard Colby, Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil

“Not only were businessmen wearing braids and brass, but the Pentagon seemed a vast daytime hotel for corporate lawyers negotiating fine, profitable points into contracts.”
― Gerard Colby, Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil

“Reconversion was delayed, heralding the coming of age of a new behemoth in American life: the military-industrial complex.”
― Gerard Colby, Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil

“They reflected a viewpoint … that you mustn’t do anything to disturb business.”
― Gerard Colby, Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil

“This was an opinion-molding empire Nelson Rockefeller was not about to surrender without a fight.”
― Gerard Colby, Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil