Brave Quotes
He was echoing proposals that he made in the Delhi Emergency Committee that had been called to cope with the butchery and murder when the Hindus and Sikhs were trying to leave the areas that were to be part of Pakistan under the Partition and the retaliations against the Delhi Muslims who were trying to flee to the new Pakistan. Unfortunately, the Muslim leadership did not want such a truce as while the land had been partitioned, Indian Money, military equipment, and other resources were yet to be divided and the Muslim leaders who had been so successful playing the violence card to gain and independent Pakistan, did not want to give up that option in the remainder of the division of India. Also, it was not at all clear that the Muslim political leaders could even then control the mobs who they had already whipped up to violence.
In general, Jefferson thought Blacks at that stage of their development inferior to whites but as this quotation shows he also thought them superior in certain traits. He also stated that their memories were superior to that of whites, but this observation we know now is not, like any of the others, a racial characteristic but is common in all oral cultures where human memory is the only way of preserving history, literature, procedures and much culture.
