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Western History Quotes

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Arundhati Roy
“As for the third Official Reason: exposing Western Hypocrisy - how much more exposed can they be? Which decent human being on earth harbors any illusions about it? These are people whose histories are spongy with the blood of others. Colonialism, apartheid, slavery, ethnic cleansing, germ warfare, chemical weapons - they virtually invented it all.”
Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

“Racial hatred in America still exists but never was it anything like the time immediately after the Civil War. The western history of our nation would not be complete without the story of former slaves that helped develop the unique character of the West.”
William Silverman

“Why did we so consistently look at the West through the sights of a rifle?”
Dan Flores, American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains

“Children happily played "cowboys and Indians" but stopped short of "masters and slaves.”
Patty Limerick

Janelle Meraz Hooper
“Be so good they can't ignore you. (Steve Martin)

Direction is so much more important than speed.”
Janelle Meraz Hooper, Geronimo's Laptop: A Historical Fantasy

“But it is not just Western youth who will be destroyed due to this madness; it is Western Civilisation that will crumble as a result.
What took millennia to build and shape will be broken apart in mere decades. Traditions and cultures that were passed down from
generation to generation and have evolved and existed for thousands of years will be forgotten and lost. The rich Western
heritage, history and Western way of life will all be washed away within a century of madness.”
Mark Collett, The Fall of Western Man