In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises… — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Today, getting people to hear your story on social media, and then act on it, requires using a platform’s native language, paying… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
Europe is a very different place from my native country of Colombia and my children are growing up in a very urban… — Shakira Copy Share Image
I don't have an answer for why Hollywood still casts non-ethnic people for ethnic roles. It's something that has to change. Sometimes… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There are challenges as far as underfunding in various parts of the city. But spirit and sense of community is so much… — Harvey Levin Copy Share Image
Five," she said. Her lips and cheeks were flushed, but her gaze was steady. "Five?" Gabriel echoed blankly. "My rating," she said,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I don't know that I would have the courage to come over to a new country where the religion is different, the… — Alan Gratz Copy Share Image
A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
There's an old, private cemetery here in Palm Springs, where I live, just down the street from the airport, that belongs to… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
The song that I will sing is an old song, so old that none knows who made it. It has been handed… — Geronimo Copy Share Image
“Jared, in other words, displays all of the symptoms of someone who has “gone native”—the term used to describe foreign correspondents, diplomats,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
I'm a licensed private investigator and have been for quite a while. I'm a lone wolf, unmarried, getting middle-aged, and not rich.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I was shooting a mini-series for Sundance/BBC, called 'Top of the Lake,' that was shot by Jane Campion, who's a beautiful native… — Jay Ryan Copy Share Image
Patriotism which has the quality of intoxication is a danger not only to its native land but to the world, and "My… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Choices are funny things-ask a native tribe that's eaten grubs and roots forever if they're unhappy, and they'll shrug. But give them… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
[The is] a mistaken belief that [the word Indian] refers somehow to the country, India. When Columbus washed up on the beach… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
The problem of South Africa is different than the world thinks. There is no native problem. The native worker gets more than… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of… — Daniel O'Connell Copy Share Image
When you look at the Pueblo communities along the Rio Grande, when you talk to the Navajo people, the Ute people, and… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
I think the Native Americans had the right idea about preserving and respecting the earth. Not just using it up. We are… — John Lurie Copy Share Image
I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
You have to make an effort to be in an unprotected environment because everyone thinks you're a completely incapable idiot who couldn't… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I once said, "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." When Bobby… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
It is the fundamental right of every American, as guaranteed by the first amendment of the Constitution, to worship as he or… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I know the activists I deal with, we sort of try and check each other to make sure that we haven't gone… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Being a New Jersey native, going down to the shore for my whole life, it's a big thing that out of towners… — Valerie Estelle Frankel Copy Share Image
The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
I can tell you about Hillary Clinton's heart. This is a woman, who, after law school, went down to my native South.… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image