We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon. So long… — Black Hawk 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 Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, the smell of the wind itself… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Most extreme acts of anti-Semitism go beyond the acts of anti-Semitism by native Europeans. — Manfred Gerstenfeld 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
The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity, is that of character. The richest bequest which any… — Robert Charles Winthrop Copy Share Image
I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic. — John Walker Lindh Copy Share Image
I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes… — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Luxury spreads its ample board before their eyes; but they are excluded from the banquet. Plenty revels over the fields; but theyare… — Washington Irving 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
And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted… — John Milton Copy Share Image
What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility… — Dennis Banks 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
I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I write entirely in English; Tagalog chauvinists chide me for this. I feel no guilt in doing so. But I am sad… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
As you know, today was Don't Take Your Illegal Immigrant To Work Day here in Los Angeles. No, all across the nation… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their… — Gayl Jones Copy Share Image
Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
It is my wish and the wishes of my people to live peaceably and quietly with you. — Cornplanter Copy Share Image