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Wynema: A Child of the Forest QUOTES

Wynema: A Child of the Forest QUOTES

1 " There is no man who is enterprising and keeps well up with the times but confesses that the women of to-day are in every respect, except political liberty, equal to the men. "

― , Wynema: A Child of the Forest

2 " No, no, my friend. You are kind, and you mean well, but you can never understand these things as I do. You've never been oppressed. "

― , Wynema: A Child of the Forest

3 " It is not my province to show how brave it was for a great, strong nation to quell a riot caused by the dancing of a few 'bucks' – for civilized soldiers to slaughter indiscriminately, Indian women and children. Doubtless it was brave, for so public opinion tells us, and it cannot err. "

― , Wynema: A Child of the Forest

4 " But, my dear friend Wildfire," said Carl Peterson laying his hand on the Indian's shoulder, "this is not a policy to live by."

"Then let it be a policy to die by," defiantly spoke the Indian. "If we cannot be free, let us die. What is life to a caged bird, threatened with death on all sides? "

― , Wynema: A Child of the Forest

5 " Stop!” cried Genevieve, her eyes flashing and her cheeks flaming with indignation. “I have had enough of that. I asked you your opinion on the Indian question and instead you are giving me the model by which you expect to mold your future wife. You had better get one of clay or putty as that will turn into any shape you wish to mold it. You say I have disgraced myself by laboring among the ignorant, idle, treacherous Indians; but never in all the years I have dwelt among them have I been subjected to the insult your words imply. I asked you for an opinion; you have given me vituperation; and not being content with slandering the Indians, you begin on me. Oh, if I pretended to be a man, I’d be a man, and not a sniveling coward. If you were a man, I would reason with you, but you do not understand the first principles of logic. "

― , Wynema: A Child of the Forest

6 " I will do all I can for them, in the way of advising and helping, and fighting if need be. Byron fought for the emancipation of Greece and gave his life to the cause. Even so, will I, a much more humble person, give mine for the liberty of the Indian. "

― , Wynema: A Child of the Forest

7 " You are anxious to a get hold of our Messiah so you can put him in irons. This you may do—in fact you may crucify him as you did that other one—but you cannot convert the Indians to the Christian religion until you contaminate them with the blood of the white man. The white man’s heaven is repulsive to the Indian nature, and if the white man’s hell suits you, keep it. I think there will be white rogues enough to fill it.’ He signs himself, ‘Your most obedient, Masse Hadjo.’ Just think, they are starving to death and are praying to their Messiah to relieve them, as nobody on earth will. And because of this, the white people want them killed. "

― , Wynema: A Child of the Forest