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«There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it with them to this country three centuries ago, and they quickly imposed it on the Africans-who were not allowed to learn to read and write-and on the Native Americans, who were simply not allowed.»
Author: Barbara Ehrenreich
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Africans, allowed, American values, ancient, centuries, imposed, native, Native American, not allowed, speakers, traditional
«Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed»
«The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.»
Author: Stewart L. Udall
(Secretary)
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Native Americans
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common touch, elemental, ethic, life-giving, native, Native American, peoples, primitive, trait
«So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little na?ve, I feel!»
Author: Eddie Izzard
(Actor, Comedian)
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American government, American President, American Presidents, Clinton, lied, native, Native American, President Clinton, surprised, The American President
«Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
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composition, graphic, graphics, native, Native American, rewards, satisfies, scarcely, urge
«The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
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«The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.»
«Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.»
«The whole world is my native land»
«The mightiest space in fortune nature bringsTo join like likes and kiss like native things.»
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