“There is also the Territory of historical self-righteousness:
if we had lived south of the Ohio in 1830,
we would not have owned slaves;
if we had lived on the frontier,
we would have killed no Indians,
violated no treaties, stolen no land.
The probability is overwhelming that
if we had belonged to the generations we deplore,
we too would have behaved deplorably.”
Wendell Berry, "What Are People For?"
