Native american Quotes · Page 2

My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

— Will Rogers

There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.

— Lee Maracle

The power of the world always works in circles.

— Black Elk

Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.

— Thomas Haden Church

“Owning land is like owning the ocean, or the air. no one owns land.”

— Tamanend

I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.

— Henry David Thoreau

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

— Luther Standing Bear

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

— Tecumseh

Nothing is quite like the Native American Spirit. It is so freeing and liberating to understand the culture. It is a way…

— Jenna Bognar

I think the African American community, the Latino community, the Native American communities have borne an unfair burden in the last century,…

— Van Jones

The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool.

— Vince Staples

I can't get upset about 'offensive to women' or 'offensive to blacks' or 'offensive to Native Americans' or 'offensive to Jews' ...…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

— Michael Tippett

“Hiking is like life... You can spend the whole trip just watching the trail ahead, worrying that you'll twist an ankle or…

— Susannah Scott

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

The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain,…

— Henry David Thoreau

The old Indian teaching was that is is wrong to tear loose from its place on the earth anything that may be…

— Wooden Leg

The Lord has never indicated that black skin came because of being less faithful. Now, the Indian; we know why he has…

— LeGrand Richards

The more I consider the condition of the white men, the more fixed becomes my opinion that, instead of gaining, they have…

— Tomochichi

We are greatly conscious of the fact that among the Lamanites - as well as among all peoples of other countries -…

— Spencer W. Kimball

A native American group has filed a class-action lawsuit against the government for mismanagement of oil, gas, grazing, timber and other royalties…

— Stephen Colbert

Racism is not about hurtful words, bruised feelings, political correctness, or refusing to call short people 'vertically challenged.' Racism is about the…

— Dave Zirin

An environmental revolution is taking shape in the United States. This revolution has touched communities of color from New York to California…

— Robert D Bullard

There's this whole notion of being an Indian - the idea that "warrior" is a positive description of us [Indians as native…

— Sherman Alexie

The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon,…

— Chief Dan George

I certainly don't object to [writers] trying to imagine the lives of other societies, but you have to do it with a…

— Michael Dorris

I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world.…

— Black Elk

“An old man spoke to his grandson. "My child," he said. "Inside everyone there is a battle between two wolves. One is…

— Christine Woodward

I have always been interested in mythology and history. The more I read, the more I realized that there have always been…

— Michael Scott

Carl Jung tells in one of his books of a conversation he had with a Native American chief who pointed out to…

— Eckhart Tolle

[last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.

— Crowfoot

“You got what you deserved. Now be a man and confess to what most of us already know.”

— Stacy Buck

It is my wish and the wishes of my people to live peaceably and quietly with you.

— Cornplanter

“The Old Ones say you can feel your spirit during a Vision Quest.”

— Dianne Harman

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

— Seneca the Younger

Do right always. It will give you satisfaction in life.

— Wovoka

I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me.

— Rickey Medlocke

I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty!

— Will Rogers