For extending its sway, partly by force of arms, partly by the voluntary submission of weaker tribes, the community soon acquires wealth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are many female gods recognized and honored by the tribes and Nations. Femaleness was highly valued, both respected and feared, and… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
I surrender this rifle to you through my young son, whom I now desire to teach in this manner that he has… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
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The world only makes sense to me given my life and my background if, in fact, we're not just an assortment of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
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The fundamental religion of most of mankind is the faith that God has revealed Himself to us and not to the barbarians.… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Right, because they're looking at also organizing the Sunni tribes up around Mosul to take back that city as well. That's the… — Tom Bowman Copy Share Image
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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
What I've discovered is that from football fans to undertakers, secret agents to marble-players and politicians, we all are part of at… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
Today's liberal intellectuals, who pride themselves on scientific method and being “broadminded”, are the most narrow-minded, self-righteous and hate-filled bigots in the… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
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The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
Many of our tribe went to the cliff each night to count the number killed during the day. They counted the dead… — Scott O'Dell Copy Share Image
Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive… — Rod Liddle Copy Share Image
With movement, families get split. With the politicization of religion, spirituality gets diluted. With people intermarrying and falling in love outside of… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers… — Ken Salazar Copy Share Image
I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
I want to celebrate these elms which have been spared by the plague, these survivors of a once flourishing tribe commemorated by… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
Morality, then, is not a set of arbitrary regulations dictated by a vengeful deity and written down in a book; nor is… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
The sun is a huntress young, The sun is a red, red joy, The sun is an Indian girl, Of the tribe… — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
Look at native cultures - they've lasted for tens of thousands of years, not doing everything right. We wouldn't want to emulate… — Tom Shadyac Copy Share Image
The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
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It's ridiculous if you ask me. I don't know what any of us are doing here. But we're a tribe, a network,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I came from a war-torn country and I was a victim of that racism because within tribes, within political lines, people were… — Pearl Tan Copy Share Image
Cannibalism to a certain moderate extent is practised among several of the primitive tribes in the Pacific, but it is upon the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Satan delegates high-ranking members of the hierarchy of evil spirits to control nations, regions, cities, tribes, people groups, neighborhoods and other significant… — C. Wagner Copy Share Image
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