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“The services that the government provides to Indians might be likened to rent. The rent for use of the entire country of the United States. *”
― The Night Watchman
― The Night Watchman
“You know any Mormons?" asked Martin Cross
"I don't think so."
"They haven't got to you. They'll come around yet. It's in their religion to change Indians into whites."
"I thought that was a government job.”
― The Night Watchman
"I don't think so."
"They haven't got to you. They'll come around yet. It's in their religion to change Indians into whites."
"I thought that was a government job.”
― The Night Watchman
“What's the point of God giving me life, if I can't live it as my own?”
― The Poet X
― The Poet X
“Don’t you want to be a U.S. citizen?” “What?” said Thomas. “We are citizens.” “Vote? You already can vote?” “Sure, back in 1924 we got the vote. After the black man, after the women. But we got the vote.”
― The Night Watchman
― The Night Watchman
“unless people are willing to transcend their fears, endure discomfort and derision, suffer the scorn of loved ones and neighbors and co-workers and friends, fall into disfavor of perhaps everyone they know, face exclusion and even banishment, it would be numerically impossible, humanly impossible, for everyone to be that man.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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