Each race determines for itself what indecencies are. Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.

Mark Twain

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Topic

Custom and convention Moral relativism Moral theory Morality

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Journals of Mark Twain

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1896 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Humorist Novelist Writer

From

United States

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 25. Originally from Notebook, c. 1896.

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Another quote from the 1890s

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. What treaty that the whites ever made with us red men have they kept? Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set in their lands. They sent 10,000 horsemen to battle. Where are the warriors to-day? Who slew them? Where are our lands ? Who owns them ? What white man can say I ever stole his lands or a penny of his money? Yet they say I am a thief. What white woman, however lonely, was ever when a captive insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian. What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and gone unfed ? Who has ever seen me beat my wives or abuse my children ? What law have I broken ? Is it wrong for me to love my own ? Is it wicked in me because my skin is red ; because I am a Sioux ; because I was born where my fathers lived ; because I would die for my people and my country ?

Sitting Bull

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Topic
US and Native American relations American expansion
Speaker
Sitting Bull
Language
Lakota
Time
1890 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Sitting Bull. Quoted in Life of Sitting Bull and History of the Indian War of 1890-'91, written by W. Fletcher Johnson. Edgewood Publishing Co., 1891.

Another quote about Moral theory

What's not forbidden to do make bold.

Friedrich Schiller

The Camp of Wallenstein

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Topic
Moral theory
Speaker
First Yager

Author

Friedrich Schiller
Source
The Camp of Wallenstein
Medium
Play
Genre
Tragedy (play) Tragedy
Statement Type
Precepts and axioms
Language
German
Time
1798 1790s 18th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Schiller, Friedrich. Wallensteins Lager [Wallenstein's Camp]. 12 Oct. 1798, Weimarer Hoftheatre, Weimar, Germany, sc. 6.

Current Citation

Schiller, Friedrich. "Wallenstein's Camp." The Robbers and Wallenstein, translated by F. J. Lamport. Penguin Classics, 1980, sc. 6.