Indian Government

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“The Indian resists curiosity by a stony silence. The Negro offers a featherbed resistance. That is, we let the probe enter, but it never comes out. It gets smothered under a lot of laughter and pleasantries.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”
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