![No one would stand for it [being the fool in the media] in a minute if you took any other group -Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, women - but somehow it's okay to do that with hillbillies.](/assets/img/quote-photos/no-one-would-stand-for-it-being-the-fool-in-the-media-in-a-minute-if-you-took-a.jpg)
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I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it. R. Robinson
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure. Yancy Butler
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It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil. Nate Parker
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The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy. John Baldacci
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And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind. Newt Gingrich
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Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud. Mikhail Baryshnikov
native-american proud heritage
I'm proud of my Native American heritage, Elizabeth Warren
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In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest. Terri Windling
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United States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a people, which under the law as written we deserve, and which should be protected. Leonard Peltier
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We talk about a free press. These people hide, they make a lot of money off the media. They hide behind the slogans of free press, and then they can come out with crap like that. It's just garbage. It's insulting to the readers. Robert Scheer
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Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem! Roseanne Barr
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Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society. Zbigniew Brzezinski
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This is the age of fear and so many of us feel afraid to speak out about what has happened to our lives in the wake of 9/11. Television promotes the world as a scary place for the United States and this justifies peeling away every element of privacy we had before. The media is monopolized so we don't even hear a lot of dissent about this new era. Sandra Cisneros
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I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are. Zoe Saldana
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Our media is possibly the worst in the world. Tim Henman
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If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. Mark Twain
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Incorruptibility by money is the old story, ... Now it's incorruptibility by media. Leon Wieseltier
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The corporations and the media don't need power; they already have it.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you. Zora Neale Hurston
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I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. Malcolm X
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Imagine what a harmonious world it... Quincy Jones
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We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit. Katherine Dunham
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First of all, Bolshevism represents... C. L. R. James
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But at the same time you can't... Angela Davis
african-american words-of-wisdom existence
Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
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Take that bone out of your nose and call me back (to an African American female caller). Rush Limbaugh
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The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore. Tim Cahill