All Vine Deloria, Jr. Quotes
- This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it. American Indian
- Who will find peace with the lands? The future of humankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up… All
- Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. Civilization
- Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make it available to… Available
- For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person. Antiabortion
- The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things. All
- Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make? Ahead
- Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant. All
- Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the edges of two… Almost Everyone
- As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the world in which… Avid
- The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white scholar recognized by… Academic
- If the tribal peoples actually represented Western origins at a much earlier time, it was exceedingly valuable that they should be studied intensely for clues… Allow
- But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages. Astronomical
- Not only did secular scientists rout the Christian fundamentalists, they placed themselves in the posture of knowing more, on the basis of their own very… Bases
- With the collision of the Shoemaker comet into Jupiter, the era of uniformitarian orthodoxy must come to an end. Minds that have been closed for… Been
- Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He… Boasted
- To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical. Ahistorical
- It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the world's religions. Somewhere… Abstractions
- These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating Dont
- When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours. America
- Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has… Allies