Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a rudeness, a brusqueness, with which the Indians were treated constantly. At a very young age, that had entered my consciousness.
Quotes about brusqueness (2 Quotes)
It seems to me probable that anyone who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them in some extent not that it was simply 'their fault' I don't mean that but that they have contributed to it by impatience, or intolerance, or brusqueness or some provocation.