Famous quotes containing the words white and/or settlers:
“It was the pine alone, chiefly the white pine, that had tempted any but the hunter to precede us on this route.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“When old settlers say One has to understand the country, what they mean is, You have to get used to our ideas about the native. They are saying, in effect, Learn our ideas, or otherwise get out; we dont want you.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)