Below is a selection of quotations from "Letter to President Pierce, 1855" chosen by a student for conciseness, style, authority, and conceptual power. "All things are connected."
(This quotation reflects the conciseness
of the original.) "We might understand if we knew what it was that the white man dreams, what he describes to his children on the long winter nights, what visions he burns into their minds, so they will wish for tomorrow."
(This
quotation reflects the stylistic strength of the original.) "Continue to contaminate your bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste."
(This
quotation establishes the writer's authority.) "For all things share the same breath--the beasts, the trees, the man."
(This
quotation demonstrates the conceptual power of the original.) next >> | 
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