Best Indians Quotations
385 Indians quotes by 257 unique authors
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In Spain in the meantime, Aristotelian scholar Juan Gines de Sepulveda was putting the impolitic moralizing of Las Casas into proper perspective for posterity: "Compare…
— Juan Gines de Sepulveda
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Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live…
— Stewart Brand
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Our adversaries, numerous and formidable, will say, and will have the right to say, that our Principe CrÇateur is identical with the Principe GÇnÇrateur of…
— Albert Pike
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I believe in white supremacy, until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don't believe giving authority and positions of leadership and…
— John Wayne
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The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American…
— Immanuel Kant
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I asked these Indians: "Do men ever make Chicha?" My question was met with gales of laughter. The women howled. Bent over in hilarity, one…
— Alan D. Eames
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The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me, feeding the seagulls…
— Brenda Peterson
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Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that really matters is…
— Thomas King
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People always think of Chinese food as the go-to ethnic food when everything else is closed during the holidays, but Indian is a nice alternative.…
— Unknown Author
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I see no reason why Indians who can give satisfactory proof of having by their own labor supported their families for a number of years,…
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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Thanksgiving, when the Indians said, "Well, this has been fun, but we know you have a long voyage back to England".
— Jay Leno
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Terrorists hate Americans. Indians hate each other. A terrorist will blow up an airport. Indians like to work at the airport. That would be counter-productive.
— Russell Peters
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Thanksgiving is for real Americans not Indians. We founded this Christian nation. Why if it wasn’t for the God-fearing pilgrims, the natives would still be…
— Sarah Palin
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The several tribes of Indians inhabiting the regions of the Upper Missouri. . . are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed…
— George Catlin
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I think the worst one [indian mascot] is the Cleveland Indians' Big Chief Wahoo. It's just a red face on a baseball with a big,…
— Wanda Sykes
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The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations of dependent Indians,…
— Edward Everett
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We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings.
— John Trudell
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Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later…
— John Trudell
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I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor…
— Sitting Bull
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Smallpox in a blanket, which the U.S. Army gave to the Cherokee Indians on their long march to the West, was nothing compared to what…
— Michael Savage
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This is our festival and on this day we are all Indians. We celebrate the festival by maintaining the spirit of brotherhood.
— Unknown Author
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I have known the Indians intimately - known them in their private relations - I think I understand the Indian character pretty well.
— George Crook
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But even labeling a site as astronomical is an improvement, since it partially sidesteps the old stereotype of Indians being primitive and ignorant savages.
— Vine Deloria, Jr.
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Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! . . . . I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to…
— Unknown Author
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