I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around. — Russell Means Copy Share Image
You can't talk about the environment, you can't talk about political correctness, affirmative action and all the other innumerable things that freedom is about, unless you have a free society based upon the integrity of the individual. If you have… — 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
