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Indian Quotes by Jared Diamond
- When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming to your land…
- Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen…
- Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an…
- We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead,…
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- Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it. — Sri Aurobindo
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and… — Henry Adams
- Friends and brothers, The Almighty created us Indians. We are as he made us. The Almighty has given to the whites a… — Standing Bear
- Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and… — Annie Besant
- In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts… — Joe Biden
- Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. — Buffalo Bill
- In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the… — H. Rap Brown
- God made me an Indian. — Sitting Bull
- What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian. — Sitting Bull
- The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance… — Martin Van Buren
- We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to… — Sherman Alexie