Quotes About Indian Removal

#1. More than a third of all the men, women, and children on this march perished from cold, starvation, and disease. Thanks to President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act, Cherokee land was left to white farmers who used it to grow cotton with slave labor and to mine gold.

Gloria Steinem

#2. A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side-the 'unsearchable riches of Christ' - are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#3. Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].

Walter Benjamin

#4. Those who love, truly love, can be coerced into nothing.

Vironika Tugaleva

#5. Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

Karl Barth

#6. He had dark hair and green eyes, and this smile that made you think he had a secret. He was tall, but not too tall. Thin, but not too thin.

Kiera Cass

#7. Life isn't divided into genres

Alan Moore

#8. Life is too short to blame other people.

Jay Park

#9. I had shaved my beard for her-a huge disappointment, because I'd enjoyed my three weeks looking like a bank robber.

Jennifer Echols

#10. Think the unthinkable. Then do the unthinkable.

James Patterson

#11. Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

Susan Sontag