African american Quote by Judith Jamison

American popular culture has long been marked by an absence of empathy for American Indians. Westerns doubled as a campaign against so-called savages in…

— Wesley Morris

America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there's a perception that that is okay.

— Winona LaDuke

I'm not super-easily offended, but it's a problem when someone's making you feel different or separate because of your race.

— Emma Weymouth

In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype…

— Ricky Schroder

Our society strangely tolerates mocking Indians.

— Neera Tanden

I understand that we should never lose our right to be offended, so I accept it. But for me it was always a study…

— Wendell Pierce

When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were…

— Philipp Meyer

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

Offendedness is just about the last shared moral currency in our country. And, I'm sorry, but it's really annoying. We don't discuss ideas or…

— Kevin DeYoung

I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.

— N. Scott Momaday

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

For a subject worked and reworked so often in novels, motion pictures, and television, American Indians remain probably the least understood and most misunderstood…

— John F. Kennedy