Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vandana Shiva

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.

Jared Diamond

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?

Danny Glover

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.

Ambrose Bierce

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

Robbie Robertson

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.

Sherman Alexie

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.

Skeet Ulrich

The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

Sitting Bull

A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.

Sitting Bull

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.

William Carey

Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?

Ellen G. White

The spirit of Christ is a missionary spirit.

Charles Studd

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

David Brainerd

Oh, that I could spend every moment of my life to God's glory!

David O. McKay

Every member ... a missionary!

David Livingstone

I am willing to go anywhere, anywhere, anywhere-provided it be forward.

T. S. Eliot

Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity.

Soren Kierkegaard

Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.