America Quote by D. H. Lawrence

The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America… The…

— D. H. Lawrence

It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.

— Thomas Jefferson

Suddenly the land is haunted by all these dead Indians. There is this new fascination with the Southwest, with places like Santa Fe, New…

— Richard Rodriguez

Of course, since we don't see the Indian as a living figure - having turned the Indian into a kind of mascot for the…

— Richard Rodriguez

If my life be spared, nothing shall stop me short of visiting every nation of Indians on the Continent of North America.

— George Catlin

The Americans will never solve the Indian problem till the Indian is extinct. They have treated them after a fashion which has intensified their…

— Isabella Bird

When the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among the white men shall have become a myth, these…

— Chief Seattle

We are not the Red Indians.

— Yasser Arafat

Hopefully the presence in Congress of an American who happens to be Hindu will increase America's understanding of India as well as India's understanding…

— Tulsi Gabbard

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

— Henry David Thoreau

“…but the image of a “fatal” disappearance of the “vanishing American” allows Indian ancestry - as opposed to African American “blood” - to function…

— Alessandro Portelli

In fact, George Washington had been an Indian fighter since the French and Indian War. And a lot of folks, particularly in the red…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr