Ian Udoh

“About three percent of the world's population (around sixty million people) died in the six year conflict. It set the stage for the Cold, Korean, Vietnam and Afghan war in the decades to come. World War 2 unfortunately introduced the world to atomic weapons, a problem we are still dealing with today. Millions”
― William D. Willis, American History: US History: An Overview of the Most Important People & Events. The History of United States: From Indians, to "Contemporary" History ... Native Americans, Indians, New York Book 1)

“Friends, it has been our misfortune to welcome the white man. We have been deceived. He brought with him some shining things that pleased our eyes; he brought weapons more effective than our own. Above all he brought the spirit-water that makes one forget old age, weakness and sorrow. But I wish to say to you that if you wish to possess these things for yourselves, you must begin anew and put away the wisdom of your fathers. You must lay up food and forget the hungry. When your house is built, your store-room filled, then look around for a neighbour whom you can take advantage of and seize all he has. Chief Red Cloud of the Oglala Sioux”
― Hugh Brogan, The Penguin History of the USA

“Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.”
― Timothy Snyder

“The European Settlers Unknowingly Killed Millions of Native Americans Although there were many accounts of the European colonizers killing and imprisoning thousands of Native Americans, the thing that really decimated the native population were not guns or any kind of weapon. When the Europeans first came to North America, they introduced diseases to which the Native American population had no resistance. Some of these diseases included smallpox, pneumonia, and influenza. The rats that stowed away in the ships that the Europeans rode in also carried with them the Black Plague. These diseases killed millions of Native Americans, far more than the casualties brought about by war.”
― William D. Willis, American History: US History: An Overview of the Most Important People & Events. The History of United States: From Indians, to "Contemporary" History ... Native Americans, Indians, New York Book 1)