Indians Quotes

“The Army is the Indian's best friend.”

— George Armstrong Custer

The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.

— Philip Sheridan

Conversation between two Indians

— Gyanendra

“He who laughs worst, weeps first”

— Paul Haddad

We are not the Red Indians.

— Yasser Arafat

Ahahahah so true... motherfucking indians

— Erdem

Our society strangely tolerates mocking Indians.

— Neera Tanden

The Gandhis are not ordinary Indians.

— Shefali Shah

The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

— Henry David Thoreau

I hears that there's a group of South American Indians that worship the number zero

— Paul McCartney

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”

— Amit Kalantri

We south Indians are clannish and comfortable about our languages.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

Tribes don't need Congressmembers' sympathy. What tribes need is for us to properly exercise our duty.

— Sharice Davids

I have been to Kargil, and I have seen the tragedy that both the Indians and the Pakistanis faced.

— Raveena Tandon

I sincerely believe that Indians have the ability to compete with the best in the world.

— Dhirubhai Ambani

The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their…

— George Crook

As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny…

— Anthony Browne

The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco,…

— Patrick Gordon

Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.

— Jamake Highwater

Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that…

— Thomas King

I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects…

— Ian Frazier

For one that comes with a pencil to sketch or sing, a thousand come with an axe or rifle. What a coarse…

— Henry David Thoreau

The old image of Tonto and the Lone Ranger was one that we, as Indian people, didn't care much for; it was…

— Michael Horse

They [American Indians] never did straight-up fights. It wasn't about, you know, getting killed in the line of fire. It was all…

— Quentin Tarantino

Our country has a trust responsibility to Indian tribes, and it seems like their voice has been lacking in so many conversations…

— Deb Haaland

“And I thanked mi papa who'd always said to me that we, los Indios, the Indians, were like the weeds. That roses…

— Victor Villaseñor

Before any final solution to American history can occur, a reconciliation must be effected between the spiritual owner of the land -…

— Vine Deloria Jr

Indians love to travel with their families, and they bring along everything including the kitchen and cooking utensils. Third-class coaches are always…

— Volkmar Wentzel

We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and…

— William Henry Ashley

A native American group has filed a class-action lawsuit against the government for mismanagement of oil, gas, grazing, timber and other royalties…

— Stephen Colbert

US law and international human rights law have radically diverged in the past years in terms of the recognition of indigenous people's…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

“They now endure incessant cultural appropriation by a majority society in the United States that celebrates an idealized American Indian but ignores…

— T.J. Stiles

“Why do you hate Indians? You know white people are are much worse, don't you? It isn't as though there's some kind…

— Natasha Pulley

“mainland of America, the Wampanoags of Massasoit and King Philip had vanished, along with the Chesapeakes, the Chickahominys, and the Potomacs of…

— Dee Brown

“It is too often the case,” Crook said, “that border newspapers … disseminate all sorts of exaggerations and falsehoods about the Indians,…

— Dee Brown

“The expression "Red Man" was used to describe the Indian by the white traders. It came from the fact that some of…

— W. Ben Hunt

“They were just little families cooking beans and planting and hunting a deer now and then, and having babies and laying their…

— Nancy E. Turner

“Before these laws could be put into effect, a new wave of white settlers swept westward and formed the territories of Wisconsin…

— Dee Brown

“The textbooks also fail to show how the continuous Indian wars have reverberated through our culture. Carleton Beals has written that "our…

— James W. Loewen