"The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide."

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Source : Samuel Eliot Morison (1983). “Christopher Columbus, Mariner”, Plume

Samuel Eliot Morison

#Columbus Quotes #Genocide Quotes #Policy Quotes

“In terms of writing, I think something happens to you, and you think, "Oh I'm going to write about that. That's an emotional event." But obviously, if you keep going, and it's something you do with regularity, you've got to find other ways to write.”
“Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.”
“By far Gretzky is the most talented player ever. Every time he gets the puck something exciting happens.”
“There's more fun in hunting with the handicap of the bow than there is in hunting with the sureness of the gun.”
“I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up.”
“We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that is our black experience. We should absolutely resist the superstar, one at a time mentality that threatens the varied and resilient, flexible wealth of our Black future.”
“People don't seem to have a problem with a romanticized New York, in fact that's almost all they ever do, in some sense, is romanticize that place. Los Angeles deserves the same courtesy.”
“The mutual fund industry provided the money for Intel and Motorola and Hewlett-Packard to crush the competitors.”

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