What the White man had won with so much blood and dishonesty was not the living land of the Red man, but the… — Orson Scott Card
What the White man had won with so much blood and dishonesty was not the living land of the Red man, but the corpse of that land. It was decay that the White man won. It would turn to dust in his hands, Alvin knew it.
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