Native Quotes

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It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we… — Thomas Jefferson
I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land. — Seneca the Younger
The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were… — Danny Glover
A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It is only the… — Sri Aurobindo
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the… — Christopher Hitchens
No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow. — William E. Conway, Jr.
The greatest moments of Native History lie ahead of us if a great spiritual renewal and wakening should take place. The Native American has been… — Billy Graham
The next 10 to 20 years will bring Native cultural expressions to the body of Christ that will be a tremendous blessing to many. — Richard Twiss
[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the… — Thomas Sprat
When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride… — Jesse Owens
...what will be the outcome of this kind of thing? Holton predicts that "at best, the result could be Muslim enclaves in Western communities in… — Robert Spencer
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished… — Tecumseh
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right. — Black Hawk
If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing… — Tom Brown, Jr.
Traditional people of Indian nations have interpreted the two roads that face the light-skinned race as the road to technology and the road to spirituality.… — William Commanda
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace.....Treat all men alike. Give them all the same… — Chief Joseph
This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to… — Spotted Tail
Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World. — Black Elk
We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow… — Chief Joseph
The song that I will sing is an old song, so old that none knows who made it. It has been handed down through generations… — Geronimo

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