Russell Means Quotes

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• Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing braids or chokers…
• [The is] a mistaken belief that [the word Indian] refers somehow to the country, India. When Columbus washed up on the beach in the Caribbean,…
• What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians…
• You see the one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not a Native American. I'm not politically correct. Everyone who's…
• It’s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.
• All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused,…
• Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes!…
• The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.
• If you learn from an experience, that's good - so nothing bad happened to you.
• May the Great Mystery continue to guide and protect the paths of you and your loved ones.
• They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry
• Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.
• It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from…
• We Indians do not teach that there is only one god. We know that everything has power, including the most inanimate, inconsequential things. Stones have…
• I’m a human being, I’m not anyone’s mascot! And I am America’s conscience. And that’s what they don’t want to look at. They would rather…
• 'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.
• Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to…
• So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people…
• In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not…
• I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets…

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