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Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off. John Henrik Clarke

People Remember Took States Must Indians Brought Only Dropped Most West Off Ships Semblance Nationality African Where Places Us Hemisphere United United States Slave

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. B. R. Ambedkar

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. Dick Gregory

Great History Victory Think Books Indians Fair Massacre Because Cavalry Won History Books Against Root Used

In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America. Eduardo Galeano

Indians Were Discovered America Natives Lived

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves. John Wayne

There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one's illegal. They should just be able to come. Linda Ronstadt

Time Legal People Immigration Country Just Be Indians Able Come Came Question Legal Immigration Just Should Illegal Illegal Immigration

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians. David Lee Roth

Buy You Sometimes Will Somebody Indians Above Crowd Throw Head Attention Attract Stick Territory Rock Get Land Your

It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager. Frank Robinson

Black First Nice Indians Instead Town Come Cleveland Referred Manager

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians. Geronimo

Government Soldiers Indian Indians Never Wronged Reported Explained

Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants. P. J. O'Rourke

Politics Thanksgiving Business Agriculture Dinner First Has-Been Indians Head Since Overalls Pilgrim Fish Been Up Fertilizer Production Grants

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World. Jared Diamond

World Old Striking Evolved Indians Give Devastating Return American Diseases Native Native Americans Epidemic Old World Many Europeans Received

It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think. Rahul Gandhi

Important Think Indians Billion Gandhi Thinks

When Indians have loved and embraced Pakistani artistes, why can't the latter come out in their support when injustice has been meted out to the people? No one wants these artistes to wage a war against their government. People didn't demand that they condemn their own country. They just expected them to say something for the sake of humanity. Adnan Sami

War Government Injustice Humanity People Country Own Say Latter Out Has-Been Embraced Indians Something No-One Support Demand Come Wage Condemn Sake Been Expected Just Loved Wants Against Them Pakistani Why

Indians are very intelligent - of that, there is no doubt - but we are not necessarily hard working. Ajay Piramal

Doubt No Doubt Indians Very Intelligent Working Hard Hard-Working Necessarily

In 'Shadow Tag,' Erdrich creates scenes from a fictional marriage, that of two American Indians, Irene and her painter husband Gil, that suggest some of the worst psychological torments and stresses of real life. Alan Cheuse

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy's valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution. Alexander the Great

Success God Great Me Courage Battle Enemy Great Things Wish Valor Indians True True Courage False Times Report Reports Done Oftentimes Depends Many Believed Things Resolution

Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny or sad, at times very wise, and other times not wise at all - a lot like me. Alexandra Fuller

People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities. Amartya Sen

People Way Sectarian Members Muslim Indians Seemed Give Identification Identities Hindu Quite Human Race Asians Communities Human Race Suddenly

The good news is that a vast majority of Indians from different religions see no contradiction between religiosity and liberalism, keep India stable. We religious liberals don't talk loudly enough. Amish Tripathi

Good News Good News Enough Liberalism Liberals India Religions Religious Indians See Vast Vast Majority Between Talk Majority Contradiction Loudly Stable Different Different Religions Keep

For me to say that all novels in English written by Indians are all alike would be a bit like saying that all the cows in India look the same and have identical horns. Amitava Kumar

Saying Me Say Alike Bit Would Would-Be India Indians Horns Written Like Look Identical Cows Same English Novels

India's nuclear-test blasts have pretty much put to rest the myth of Indians being peace-loving Gandhians. Amitava Kumar

Rest Myth India Indians Pretty Blast Put Being Much

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