Cursing Quote by Mark Twain

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the…

— Charles Alexander Eastman

They are the greatest curse of all great men, daughters.

— Jason Zebehazy

“And the sins of the Eastern father shall be visited upon the Western sons. Often taking their time, stored up in the genes like…

— Zadie Smith

“The servant, still a child, cranes his neck, turns his face up toward all of them. He is dark as history, origin of the…

— Natasha Trethewey

Great men have the nature of a child.

— Ramakrishna

We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists

— Thomas Jefferson

Our society strangely tolerates mocking Indians.

— Neera Tanden

“Hereditary leadership was unknown. Men became chiefs by their prowess in war; and because he must ever be generous, a chief was usually a…

— Frank Bird Linderman

“—Help these boys build a nation their own. Ransack the histories for clues to their past. Plunder the literatures for words they can speak.…

— Jamie O'Neill

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who…

— Ben Jonson

The presidents and the founding fathers and all of the people we sort of raise up as false idols, we don't wrestle with the…

— Clint Smith

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

— Ibn Khaldun