"...the English-speaking peoples [are] the most ruthless conquerors the world has ever seen, ruthless in the sense that they displace and destroy with large-hearted, joyous self-sufficiency, blotting out all manners, customs, religions, and governments which happen to differ from their own."
--Hamlin Garland, 1903, in an article about how writers, as well as governments, have used and abused native peoples.
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