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.

Sitting Bull

If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.

Sitting Bull

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

Sitting Bull

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

Sitting Bull

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

Sitting Bull

I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say...

Isabel Wilkerson

America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is because people came from someplace else.

Geronimo

I was born where there were no enclosures.

Henry David Thoreau

I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.

Henry David Thoreau

The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.

Henry David Thoreau

A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides through an interpreter, quite in the described mode,--the Indians, as usual, having the advantage in point of truth and earnestness, and therefore of eloquence. The most prominent chief was named Little Crow. They were quite dissatisfied with the white man's treatment of them, and probably have reason to be so.

Henry David Thoreau

I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave off.

Henry David Thoreau

It is worth the while to detect new faculties in man,--he is so much the more divine; and anything that fairly excites our admiration expands us. The Indian, who can find his way so wonderfully in the woods, possesses an intelligence which the white man does not,--and it increases my own capacity, as well as faith, to observe it. I rejoice to find that intelligence flows in other channels than I knew. It redeems for me portions of what seemed brutish before.

Henry David Thoreau

The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.

Jamaica Kincaid

I can't get upset about 'offensive to women' or 'offensive to blacks' or 'offensive to Native Americans' or 'offensive to Jews' ... Offend! I can't get worked up about it. Offend!

Ishmael Reed

I reached the age of 70, because I have cultivated an association of multicultural intellectuals who are informed and alert to whatever "tricknology" that's laid on us by the powers that be. These include White ethnic intellectuals- people who know their roots- as well as Native American, Asian American, Hispanic and Black intellectuals. These are thirty, forty-year associations with some of the best minds around. Minds that are ignored by the media.

Yancy Butler

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

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

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,

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.

Chief Seattle

All things are bound together. All things connect.

Chief Joseph

We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.

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!