Firsts Quote by Luis Gonzalez

More than half of Guatemalans are pureblooded Indians, descendants of the proud Maya-Quiche tribes. In their mist-shrouded villages, the Indians worship the corn god…

— Stephen Kinzer

Indians in general are sort of thick-skinned and hard to be moved.

— Saroo Brierley

In the case of my country, Guatemala, 65% of the inhabitants are indigenous. The constitution speaks of protection for the indigenous. Who authorized a…

— Rigoberta Menchu

What really terrifies Americans is the prospect that the Indian is very much alive, that the Indian is having nine babies in Guatemala, and…

— Richard Rodriguez

I recognize now that the conditions that Indians are living in are the conditions that poor people everywhere are living in.

— Sherman Alexie

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.

— Ezra Stiles

Very much like African-Americans, the history of America is taking away resources, whether it's labor or whether it's land from one racial group to…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

What strikes me every single time is that the aspirations of Indians are unique and unparalleled. They're very demanding, regardless of background.

— Sundar Pichai

You've never been very generous, you Westerners, toward us Indians. You should have seen that things were changing, albeit slowly. You should have seen…

— Indira Gandhi

Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning…

— Ben Nighthorse Campbell

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

We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings.

— John Trudell