Tribes Quotes
371 quotes by 295 authors
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We know that this nation entered into solemn treaties [with Indian tribes] which have been continuously violated for more than 250 years. It's a disgrace.…
— John McCain
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Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the…
— Ayn Rand
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No tribe unites with another of its own free will.
— Arthur Keith
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People want to be in their own fashion tribes, so they want to wear the same clothes to be connected to everyone else in that…
— Christian Lacroix
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When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would…
— Rudyard Kipling
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As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.
— T.E. Lawrence
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Now bring what we have into common stock, and communicate to everyone in need; we who hated and destroyed one another, and on account of…
— Justin Martyr
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The combination of such characters, some, as the sacral ones, altogether peculiar among Reptiles, others borrowed, as it were, from groups now distinct from each…
— Richard Owen
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The Medicine Man occupied the honored role of priest and physician to his tribe. They understood that healing was done by the intercession of celestial…
— Corinne Heline
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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
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No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great…
— Tecumseh
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Men are tattooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea Islanders; but a real human heart with divine love in it beats with…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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I hope the Great Heavenly Father, who will look down upon us, will give all the tribes his blessing, that we may go forth in…
— Red Cloud
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Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.
— Chief Seattle
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The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might suffocate in your own waste.
— Chief Seattle
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If ever we are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven…
— Thomas Jefferson
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This government to government relationship is the result of sovereign and independent tribal governments being incorporated into the fabric of our Nation, of Indian tribes…
— George H. W. Bush
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Let us rededicate ourselves to the principle that all Americans have the tools to make the most of their God-given potential. For Indian tribes and…
— William J. Clinton
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Our patriotic fervor was the result of the old and widespread belief in the idea of American exceptionalism, the idea that America was a new…
— Peggy Noonan
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I moved to Des Moines when I was 15. I asked my mother to give up costody and sign parental rights over to my grandmother,…
— Corey Taylor
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