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"Make sure a conflict exists before working to resolve it."

"We find an abundance of anger and the desire to destroy the opposition in any competitive human environment. Hate sparks contest, and in the modern world, attorneys are the paid gladiators of warring parties. Attorneys are for hire to the highest bidder. Attorneys ply their trade by dealing in the commerce of anger and hatred."

"The instinct of self-preservation and the urge to self-destruction are equally strong in man! The Devil has equal a sway over humanity as God until a time still unknown to us."

"Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite."

"There is not so good an understanding between any two but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness."

"They were in a long line, an endless line, and as they burst from the wood there was an instant, the smallest part of a heartbeat, when all Catelyn saw was the moonlight on the point of their lance, as if a thousand willowisps were coming down the ridge, wreathed in silver. Then she blinked, and they were only men, rushing down to kill or die."
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"Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?"


"If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean."


"I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself."


"Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them."


"They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time."


"What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian."


"I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place."
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