Of 472 civilian occupations defined by the Department of Commerce, only six are majority immigrant (legal and illegal). These six occupations account… — Mark Krikorian Copy Share Image
Teachers and librarians can be the most effective advocates for diversifying children's and young adult books. When I speak to publishers, they're… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
I trade both with the living and the dead, for the enrichment of our native language. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
Orchestration is part of the very soul of the work. A work is thought out in terms of the orchestra, certain tone-colors… — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Copy Share Image
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
I wanted in my lifetime to vote for a radical Native American woman, since my vision of any future that we might… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I am convinced that those societies (such as the Native American peoples) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Don't think I am not homesick for America. I say 'homesick' advisedly because I am a man with two homes - America,… — Leslie Howard Copy Share Image
In the Native American tradition... a man, if he's a mature adult, nurtures life. He does rituals that will help things grow,… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
[Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary."… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
DEINOTHERIUM, n. An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the Pterodactyl was in fashion. The latter was a native of Ireland, its name… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock… — John Milton Copy Share Image
No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
A woman who utters such disgusting and depressing noise has no right to be anywhere, no right to live. Remember that you… — Rex Harrison Copy Share Image
Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It's really important to me to promote worthy causes. But not in a heavy, obligatory, responsibility way. I really admired that as… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
Y2K hype taps our native discomfort with the realities of a dynamic, evolving social order. It elevates personal, local contact over the… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the… — William James Copy Share Image
I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image