Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good. — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part,… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Ruefulness is one of the classical tones of American fiction. It fosters a native, deglamorized form of anxiety. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I get in the sun I get very tanned. You can't tell me from the native fishermen in Hawaii or Mexico. — Desi Arnaz Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans -… — Beau Bridges Copy Share Image
Grandfather says that when your friends die you must not cry. You must not hurt anybody or do harm to anyone. You… — Wovoka Copy Share Image
Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is wrong to divide the nation white against black, native born against immigrant or one religion against another. It is also… — Grover Norquist 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
Before me, my grandfathers, my uncles and my father were all boxers because Native Americans had to box in boarding schools. But… — George Tahdooahnippah Copy Share Image
Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I am honored to have Ajamu Baraka as a running mate. I think he brings enormous credibility in the disenfranchised communities, not… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a 'surly, ill-mannered, bad-tempered fellow'. Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Environmentalists like to say that defeats are permanent, victories temporary. Extinction, like death, is forever, but protection needs to be maintained. But… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Puerto Ricans are Americans. We've been American citizens since 1917. We fought the same battles, made the same sacrifices. We've lost our… — Nelson Antonio Denis Copy Share Image
My work to me is more like what the Native Americans say: When we walk upon the earth, we always place our… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow-men,… — Washington Irving 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
It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic." — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. But if you ask a Native American, that number is… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The United States, you know, people - one of the reasons that it is said that native people received citizenship in 1924… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There is an old and very wise Native American saying: Every time you point a finger in scorn—there are three remaining fingers… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit,… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
In the native world, major gods come in trios, duos, and groups. It is the habit of non-natives to discover the supreme… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
