Russell Means

Freedom is for everyone, whatever lifestyle they choose, as long as it's peaceful and honest

— Russell Means

America always put forth this phony melting pot theory, but it's a reality now. They couldn't accomplish the melting pot economically; they…

— Russell Means

I've always considered myself a man of integrity as a leader of the American Indian Movement and of Indian people. I will…

— Russell Means

When a woman grabs my braids and says "How cute!" I crab her breast and say "How cute!" She never touches me…

— Russell Means

Golden eagles don`t mate with bald eagles, deer don`t mate with antelope, gray wolves don`t mate with red wolves. Just look at…

— Russell Means

Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our…

— Russell Means

I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot.

— Russell Means

Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing…

— Russell Means

Children in poverty aren't trying to get out of poverty; they're just trying to rip off a pair of Nikes. So we…

— Russell Means

The United States is a fake country.

— Russell Means

We Indians do not teach that there is only one god. We know that everything has power, including the most inanimate, inconsequential…

— Russell Means

What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are…

— Russell Means

I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except…

— Russell Means

True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself.

— Russell Means

Imagine going to the holy land in Israel, whether you're a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim, and start carving up…

— Russell Means

So I'd much rather get across the concept of freedom. It's what's important to Indian children. The only way you can be…

— Russell Means

In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where…

— Russell Means

It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can…

— Russell Means

I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The…

— Russell Means

The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.

— Russell Means

May the Great Mystery continue to guide and protect the paths of you and your loved ones.

— Russell Means

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having…

— Russell Means

Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing…

— Russell Means

Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States - the cultural destruction.

— Russell Means

Even though the American Indian Movement on a national-international scale has proven to be extremely dysfunctional, the American Indian Movement I was…

— Russell Means