Famous quotes containing the words indian, civil and/or rights:
“The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Colonel Shaw
and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry
on St. Gaudens shaking Civil War relief,
propped by a plank splint against the garages earthquake.”
—Robert Lowell (19171977)
“Dat little man in black dar, he say women cant have as much rights as men, cause Christ want a woman! Whar did your Christ come from? Whar did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothin to do wid Him.”
—Sojourner Truth (17971883)