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In this fashion many have passed idly through the Indian schools during the last decade, afterward to boast of their charity to the North American Indian. But few there are who have paused to question whether real life or long-lasting death lies beneath this semblance of civilization.

— Zitkala-Ša

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Use the words that come to you, that which is in the heart and mind.

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We must put our thoughts into practice every day in the most complex business matter, in the most simple home duty.

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My heart and I lie small upon the earth like a grain of throbbing sand.

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Today the Indian is pressed almost to the farther sea. Does that sea symbolize his death?

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To take the life of a nation during the slow march of centuries seems not a lighter crime than to crush it instantly with one fatal blow.

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