Native Quotes

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Weâ€™re not Indians and weâ€™re not Native Americans. Weâ€™re older than both concepts. Weâ€™re the people, weâ€™re the human beings. — John Trudell
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
Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over… — Wendell Willkie
Matt Mason must be declared the poet laureate of the Midwest! No other native son celebrates the overlooked America, its unsung citizens (from the anonymous… — Rigoberto Gonzalez
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best. — Jim Harrison
Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of… — Joe Baca
I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day,… — Miriam Makeba
America is made up of people who came from someplace else. Even the Native Americans came over the Bering strait... America is what it is… — Isabel Wilkerson
Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love… — Christopher Wren
I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those… — Benjamin Franklin
I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an… — Gustav Mahler
The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas. — Marshall McLuhan
Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the powers of consumerism,… — Wes Jackson
I am a Colorado native, and, no, I did not vote for the anti-gay amendment or the same-sex marriage ban, and I am not a… — Connie Willis
My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and native plants that… — Lady Bird Johnson
Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The noblest contribution which any man can make for the benefit of posterity, is that of character. The richest bequest which any man can leave… — Robert Charles Winthrop
We are not better than native born Americans, and of course not smarter. Weâ€™ve just been to the last stop of this bus. — Sergei Dovlatov
During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas… — Eddie Bernice Johnson
In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now… — Terri Windling

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