"There are too many of us to kill, you know," she pointed out, thinking she was starting to talk like her father. "Too many who have been here three centuries."
"Do you think I don't know that?" demanded Ochobu, pausing in her work to scowl at Aly. "I'll have to get used to luarin, even if they aren't you."
"You will of you don't want a massacre." Aly said, holding the old woman's eye's with hers. "If you don't want to mark your return to power with killing. How much luarin blood will you discard? Half-bloods? You'd murder your own lady, then. She'd object to the murder of her luarin father and step-mother in any case. Quarter-bloods, eighth-bloods? How much do you count as being too much?"
"Stop it," growled the old woman. "The raka people are not like the first three Rittevon kings, slaughtering those who would not bend the knee to them. We are not murderers."
If anyone is wondering, in this particular book Raka is akin to colored person and Luarin is akin to white person. This is, in my opinion, one of the best books written by Tamora Pierce (along with the second: Trickster's Queen). It deals with a lot of issues that you can still see present in our societies today. Pierce's handling and understanding of these issues is masterful and fantastic. I think that people should read these books.