Gary Jacabella

“Becoming American meant rejecting one of the two worlds. It meant trying to hide the grease stains saturating the paper in which your school lunch of a fried potato and egg sandwich on crusty bread was wrapped, while the rest of your classmates ate ham on white bread with mayonnaise.”
― Maria Laurino, The Italian Americans: A History

“the economically more powerful culture may not be the more powerful culture spiritually and morally.”
― George E. Tinker, Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology And American Indian Liberation

“Becoming American meant hearing slurs that now defined you and your people: dago, wop, guinea, spaghetti bender.”
― Maria Laurino, The Italian Americans: A History

“Contemporary euro-american occupation of Indian land is an important continuing benefit of the conquest that must be accounted for in the euro-american moral and spiritual inventory. In euro-american legal discourse, a recipient of stolen property is just as liable as the actual thief.”
― George E. Tinker, Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology And American Indian Liberation