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native-american roots issues
When the wilderness movement emerged, it emerged separate from the issue of social inequality and the economic problems of survival. It was a preservationist ecology movement created by an occupying culture. Clearly, a wilderness movement started by Native Americans would not have had the same roots. Vandana Shiva
native-american gun steel
It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel? Jared Diamond
native-american gun land
The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the Second Amendment is. Danny Glover
native-american humor leaving
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. Ambrose Bierce
native-american world noise
making a noise in this world making a noise in this world you can bet your ass, I won't go quietly making a noise in this world. Robbie Robertson
native-american writing ironic
Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're really an underrepresented population, and the ironic thing is very, very few of those we call Native American writers actually grew up on reservations, and yet most of their work is about reservations. Sherman Alexie
native-american sides unbelievable
The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them. Skeet Ulrich
native-american wind people
A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people. Sitting Bull
native-american men white-man
I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.
women may too-much
I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner. Arthur Conan Doyle
women worry needs
What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have. Cameron Diaz
women heart mind
With women, the heart argues, not the mind. Jane Austen
women optimistic memorable
A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? Jane Wagner
women lasts next
Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one. Bella Abzug
women clothes trying
It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes. Barry Watson
women justice weakness
The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious. Arthur Schopenhauer
women office religion
If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...? Elizabeth Cady Stanton
women past lines
There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them. Doris Lessing