While they trace their history back to wars that helped to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and to their exploits in the Civil… — Brendan Sexton III Copy Share Image
There can be no more ancient and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it with them to this country three… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Immigrants have been coming here for a long time. The Americans that are afraid of others coming were immigrants once themselves, so… — Godfrey Copy Share Image
The soul on earth is an immortal guest, Compelled to starve at an unreal feast: A spark, which upward tends by nature's… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
My reluctance to enter any relationship with men has been affected by the fact that many Aboriginal men are very wounded and… — Marilyn Dumont Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time with some native Hawaiians who protest being part of the United States and literally carry protest… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
I have four relatively small children, and around fourth grade, they start doing big projects on Native Americas: everything is Native Americans… — Soledad O'Brien Copy Share Image
If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
The duty of universities is toward their nation, for which they must prepare leaders in all fields and these must be necessarily… — A. C. Cuza 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
The Navajo Generating Station in Page, for example, employs hundreds of people, mostly Native Americans, and provides nearly all of the power… — Ann Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
The definition of gumbo is almost as slippery as that of Creole. Just as gumbo can contain pretty much any kind of… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
Our land is more valuable than your money. It will last forever. It will not even perish by the flames of fire.… — Crowfoot Copy Share Image
Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't.… — Curtis LeMay Copy Share Image
Through a historical catastrophe - the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor of Rome - I was born in one of the… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new;… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
“Philosophy, beginning in wonder, as Plato and Aristotle said, is able to fancy everything different from what it is. It sees the… — William James Copy Share Image
And when native man left off this form of development, his humanization was retarded in growth. — Standing Bear Copy Share Image
I'm even taller in person, because photographs shrink you down and steal your soul native american. — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
It is my wish and the wishes of my people to live peaceably and quietly with you. — Cornplanter Copy Share Image
As you may know, I'm a native Texan. In fact I'm a fifth generation Texan. — Ken Starr Copy Share Image
Finding your feet in a new country provides an enormous boost to your confidence and independence. — Layla Moran Copy Share Image
We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us? — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty! — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Man in society is like a flow'r, Blown in its native bed. 'Tis there alone His faculties expanded in full bloom Shine… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
I have a hard problem, being some part Native American - being a Christian: do you get burned, do you get cremated,… — Duane Chapman Copy Share Image
An annibaptist is a thing I am not a member of:I am a Pisplikan just now & a Prisbeteren at Kercaldy my… — Marjorie Fleming Copy Share Image
Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
The Red Army... swept the native population clean in a manner that has no parallel since the days of the Asiatic hordes. — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands,… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
