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The uncivilized and inherently uncivilizable African slaves couldn't possible be objecting to their status as slaves of the clearly more civilized and benevolent white slave owners.
Conservative Activist Grover Norquist: Obama Is "Kerry With A Tan" 2009
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Evidence and intuition-and maybe a residue of uncivilizable terror that lies inside us, every one-point to 000-: true North.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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Only let us not deceive ourselves as to this point in future, Germany is the dangerous nation because it is the uncivilizable nation, because its castles, its fields, and its barracks have remained the inexhausted, and perhaps the inexhaustible, reservoirs of human ferocity.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915 Various
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The Huns were uncivilizable savages, who might harry a continent, but neither under Attila, nor Genghis, nor Timour, could ever found an organized kingdom.
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"The difference in volume is chiefly confined to the occipital and basal portions," -- in other words, to the region of the animal propensities; and hence, it is argued, the ferocious, brutal, and uncivilizable character of the wild tribes.
The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century Francis Parkman 1858
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