The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it? — Deacon Jones Copy Share Image
Next time you meet a 'foreigner', remember it's only like a window with a different shape to it and the person who's… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
I'm a native West Virginian and I've been called everything from a hillbilly to a stump jumper. I'm always proud of it;… — John Raese Copy Share Image
“There is no substitute to living in one's native land, struggling and winning with one's own people.” — Mario I. Miclat Copy Share Image
To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies. — Richard King Copy Share Image
But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
Just because I’m Native American doesn’t mean I can track furniture through the wilderness.” She deepened her voice: “‘Yes, kemosabe. A three-legged… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the most interesting immigrant writing involves stepping outside of that old, dreary binary. Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people's pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There… — Sufjan Stevens 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
Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect… — Beau Bridges Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“If the bible be true, God commanded his chosen people to destroy men simply for the crime of defending their native land.… — Robert G. Ingersoll 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
Imperialism has now reached a degree of almost scientific perfection. It uses White workers to conquer the non-white workers of The Colonies.… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent...… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
I do not always ask, in my prayers and discussions, for only those things I would like to see happen, because no… — Frank Fools Crow Copy Share Image
In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being… — Luther Standing Bear Copy Share Image
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
The African, because of the violent differences between what was native and what he was forced to in slavery, developed some of… — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century,… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Pennsylvania couldn't be prouder of our native son, Joe Biden from Scranton. No one knows us better than Joe. — Bob Casey, Jr Copy Share Image
There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
“The bodies of the dead, even of a savage enemy shall not be subjected to indignities by civilized and Christian men.” — Colonel H. S. Jarrett Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that I had come for the first time close to the soil of my native country, and could… — Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia Copy Share Image
I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
We cannot rely on our native tongue if our spouse does not understand it. If we want them to feel the love… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by… — Henry David Thoreau 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
The next 10 to 20 years will bring Native cultural expressions to the body of Christ that will be a tremendous blessing to many. — Richard Twiss Copy Share Image
Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
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