American Quote by Alexandra Fuller

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.

— Ram Dass

Yes, Yes. Indians were the oldest civilization on Earth, the greatest, the best. And only Indians had culture. Others were all dumb nomads and…

— Manu Joseph

Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.

— Sherman Alexie

Indians in general are sort of thick-skinned and hard to be moved.

— Saroo Brierley

The American public has difficulty believing ... [that] injustice continues to be inflicted upon Indian people because Americans assume that the sympathy and tolerance…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

Notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy with which of late years the Indians have been sometimes abandoned to their enemies, it is not to be doubted…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803â1882

Very much like African-Americans, the history of America is taking away resources, whether it's labor or whether it's land from one racial group to…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype…

— Ricky Schroder

American popular culture has long been marked by an absence of empathy for American Indians. Westerns doubled as a campaign against so-called savages in…

— Wesley Morris

Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! . . . . I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable…

— John Chivington

Indians have a big problem with alcohol and drugs. I grew up with an admiration for their culture and was sensitive to their problems.

— Kirstie Alley

The Indians are a civilization wrought with culture and a beautiful, deep spirituality.

— Cree Summer