Indian Quotes

822 Indian quotes by 517 unique authors

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe. — Aravind Adiga
Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice… — Aravind Adiga
Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the… — Aravind Adiga
In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the natives. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions… — Mahatma Gandhi
Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension. Of course,… — Mahatma Gandhi
A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa.… — Mahatma Gandhi
People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture. — Salman Khurshid
The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the… — Patricia Briggs
My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the… — Patricia Briggs
Strifes will arise through the period. Watch for them near the Davis Strait in the attempts there for the keeping of the life line to… — Edgar Cayce
To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical. — Vine Deloria, Jr.
The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand. — Charles Alexander Eastman
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church. — Charles Alexander Eastman
The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible… — Charles Alexander Eastman
I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one… — Chief Joseph
There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind — E. P. Thompson
Life didn't just happen to them. They experienced life at a deeper level than I had ever experienced it. I had been a radical, a… — Larry Brilliant
We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables,… — Max Nordau
I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East… — Nelly
I look more Indian when I'm serious. — Sherman Alexie
Reardan is the rich white farm town that sits in the wheat fields exactly 22 miles away from the Rez. And it's a hick town… — Sherman Alexie
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature. — Sherman Alexie
The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than… — Kenneth C. Davis
The Indians, however, could not migrate from one part of the United States to another; neither could they obtain employment as readily as white people,… — Nelson A. Miles

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