I've always considered myself a man of integrity as a leader of the American Indian Movement and of Indian people. I will… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot. — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct. — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States - the cultural destruction. — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Even though the American Indian Movement on a national-international scale has proven to be extremely dysfunctional, the American Indian Movement I was… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
You see the one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not a Native American. I'm not politically… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Freedom is for everyone, whatever lifestyle they choose, as long as it's peaceful and honest — Russell Means Copy Share Image
America always put forth this phony melting pot theory, but it's a reality now. They couldn't accomplish the melting pot economically; they couldn't accomplish… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
I've always considered myself a man of integrity as a leader of the American Indian Movement and of Indian people. I will stand that… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
When a woman grabs my braids and says "How cute!" I crab her breast and say "How cute!" She never touches me again! — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Golden eagles don`t mate with bald eagles, deer don`t mate with antelope, gray wolves don`t mate with red wolves. Just look at domesticated animals,… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom. — Russell Means Copy Share Image
I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot. — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing braids or… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Children in poverty aren't trying to get out of poverty; they're just trying to rip off a pair of Nikes. So we Indian people… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
We Indians do not teach that there is only one god. We know that everything has power, including the most inanimate, inconsequential things. Stones… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
