What is noteworthy about the quotes that open "Down at the Cross"?

The quotations at the beginning of this section create, through both their content and the way they're juxtaposed with each other, a spare but undeniably vivid portrayal of one race's domination over the other. The first quotation, the Kipling, delineates the white perspective. Kipling, a white Englishman in India at a time when India was governed by a self-righteous, self-serving minority of whites, is essentially telling his Indian servants to do as they're told and to stifle their protests and concerns.