Famous Quotes & Sayings

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

Yancy Butler

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

Nate Parker

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.

John Baldacci

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.

Newt Gingrich

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.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Nobody else in the world has a form like the Native American musical, and Americans should be very proud.

Elizabeth Warren

I'm proud of my Native American heritage,

Philipp Meyer

When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.

Terri Windling

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.

Leonard Peltier

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Thom Yorke

I'm even taller in person, because photographs shrink you down and steal your soul native american.

Judith Jamison

I have been guilty of watching Westerns without acknowledging that Native Americans have gone through the same madness as African Americans. Isn't it extraordinary that sometimes the most offended have not seen others being offended?

Chief Seattle

All things are bound together. All things connect.

Chief Seattle

The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might suffocate in your own waste.

Chief Joseph

We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.

Chief Joseph

We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now... but it will grow again... like the trees.

Eddie Izzard

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!

Black Elk

Everywhere is the center of the world. Everything is sacred.

Black Elk

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles.

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?

Jared Diamond

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

Christopher Moore

I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't find anything. So it's a wide-open field.

D. H. Lawrence

Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.

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.

Thomas Jefferson

I am convinced that those societies (such as the Native American peoples) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments. Among the former, public opinion is in the place of law, & restrains morals as powerfully as laws ever did anywhere. Among the latter, under pretence of governing they have divided their nations into two classes, wolves & sheep. I do not exaggerate.

Rick Renzi

Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state.

Spiro T. Agnew

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

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.