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the life, drink as much as you want, use drugs as much as you want, but don't go out of the reservation. Remain deep in the forest."
I told him, "What right have you got to prevent others entering America? It is not your motherland." But they have made it theirs, and nobody in the world, not even their own thinkers, ever raised the question, "What about the freedom of America? When are we going to leave?"
"And you have become dispensers of morality, judgement, you have created courts of law and a constitution. And this country does not belong to you; you are barbarous invaders. If there is any greater crime you tell me!"
He said, "You are right, but now it is too late. We have been here for three hundred years, and what has happened has happened. Now we cannot go anywhere. There are Italians, and there are Germans, and there are English people, and there are Spanish, and there are Dutch; from all the countries of Europe there are people. They will not be taken back; their own countries will not accept them anymore."
So they have nowhere to go. And they are occupying a country of poor natives. You will be surprised to know how barbarous has been their behavior all through their history. The whole city of New York was purchased from the Red Indians by the so-called Americans for twenty-four silver dollars. Do you call that business? They were forced. The whole city of New York just for twenty-four dollars!
All rights and wrongs up to now have been decided by whoever is powerful; it is power that decides. In India they have a proverb, `Whoever has the staff will have the buffalo.' It does not matter to whom it belongs; the question is: whose staff is bigger, who is stronger? The stronger make the rules for the weaker, the richer make the rules for the poorer. Naturally those rules are in favor of the rich, of the powerful, they are against the poor and the weak. When I say I'm against morality, I say I am against this whole structure, this whole system of making rules by the powerful for the powerless.
Man has made rules for women because he is more muscular. The woman is more fragile, more dependent because she becomes pregnant.
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