Enemies Quote by Isabella Bird

What we have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took a proud…

— Richard M. Nixon

The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians,…

— William Tecumseh Sherman

The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern…

— Stewart Udall

The American public has difficulty believing ... [that] injustice continues to be inflicted upon Indian people because Americans assume that the sympathy and tolerance…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States - the cultural destruction.

— Russell Means

Illegal immigrants have been a problem in America for hundreds of years...Just ask any Indian.

— Peter Jennings

America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies.…

— Narendra Modi

“The Indians must conform to 'the white man’s ways', peaceably if they will, forcibly if they must. They must adjust themselves to their environment,…

— Thomas Morgan U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs

The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the White man…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny or sad,…

— Alexandra Fuller

It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come…

— Russell Means

I had a very clear vision. If Indians start consuming power like the Americans, the world will run out of resources. Either you stop…

— Tulsi Tanti