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“When Chief Black Hawk was defeated and captured in 1832, he made a surrender speech: I fought hard. But your guns were well aimed. The bullets flew like birds in the air, and whizzed by our ears like the wind through the trees in the winter. My warriors fell around me. . . The sun rose dim on us in the morning, and at night it sunk in a dark cloud, and looked like a ball of fire. That was the last sun that shone on Black Hawk. . . He is now a prisoner to the white men. . . He has done nothing for which an Indian ought to be ashamed. He has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them and take away their lands. You know the cause of out making war. It is known to all white men. They ought to be ashamed of it. Indians are not deceitful. The white men speak bad of the Indian and look at him spitefully. But the Indian does not tell lies. Indians do not steal.”

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Book:A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
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“When Sauk leader Black Hawk led his people back from a winter stay in Iowa to their homeland in Illinois in 1832 to plant corn, the squatter settlers there claimed they were being invaded, bringing in both Illinois militia and federal troops. The "Black Hawk War" that is narrated in history texts was no more than a slaughter of Sauk farmers. The Sauks tried to defend themselves but were starving when Black Hawk surrendered under a white flag.”

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Book:An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
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“Canals are made of flat water, and flat water is difficult stuff to get hold of. It is expensive. You use locks to keep it flat when you go up hills. Sometimes, you have to take the water under hills in tunnels in order to preserve its flatness. Canals were not cheap to build.”

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Book:Parallel Lines: Or, Journeys on the Railway of Dreams
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“Les femmes nous aiment pour nos défauts. Si nous en avons une somme convenable, elles nous pardonnent tout, même d'être intelligents. (...) - Naturellement, c'est la vérité. Si nous ne vous aimions pas pour vos défauts, que deviendriez-vous tous ? Pas un de vous ne se marierait. Vous ne seriez plus qu'un tas d'infortunés célibataires. Ce qui, d'ailleurs, ne vous changerait pas beaucoup. Car aujourd'hui tous les hommes mariés vivent en célibataires, et tous les célibataires en hommes mariés.”

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Book:The Picture Of Dorian Gray
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