Britain and India:
Using the pretext of doing mercantile trade in the prosperous subcontinent British landed here, looted india and improved their economy and made England a prosperous nation. In the case of native Indians in the US, European settlers took away their lands with resources and made them live on the reservations.
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| British Masters. 2ndlook.wordpress.com |
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| End of British imperialism in India cartoonstock.com |
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American Indians and European settlers:
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| Chief Seattle Statue.factfile.org |
"They (European settlers) made many promises but never kept but one. They promised to take our land and they took it.". ........... Indian Chief Seattle ( The city of Seattle, Washington USA is named after him) about white conquerors of America.
Quotable Quotes:
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| US Politician Daniel Webster . en.wikipedia.org |
What do we what with this worthless region of savages and wild beasts, of shifting sand and whirlwind of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts and these endless mountains?" .
.......... Daniel Webster, 1852. US Secretary of State from Massachusetts. He commented on the wild Western States strung out along the Rocky Mountains Time Magazine 10 December 1980; page 24.
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."I know of no depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but the people."..........Thomas Jefferson, Former US President.
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"It is better to remain silent and be a fool, than speak out to prove it." ............ Abe Lincoln, Former US President.
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| en.wikipedia.org |
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| American Black activist. Stokely Carmichael |
"White People sending Black People to make war on Yellow People in order to defend the land they stole from the Red People." .......... Stokely Carmichael.
(April 1964 Vietnam anti- war demonstration in Manhattan, New York
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"America is the finest countries ever stolen". .......Bobcat Goldthwait
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| Californiaindianeducation.com |
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| Indigenouspeoplesliterature.com |
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| Sayingsplus.com |
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| twitter.com |
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| Pinterest.com |
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Note: Many of the posts on Quotes for Life,Funny Quotes and Humor were published some years ago and I repost them one by one now on after update and correction.
Unless and otherwise authors' names are mentioned, the quotes are mine and are not meant to hurt any person. Image credit goes to respective cartoonist and media mentioned there under ......Author
K. N. Jayaraman (Author: navrangindia.blogspot.com )
