United states navy Quote by Michael Lesk

We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to…

— Rick Renzi

The Navajo Code Talkers were Marines and heroes who helped secure victory in WWII. We owe them a debt that can never be repaid.…

— Ruben Gallego

My wartime experiences developing a code that utilized the Navajo language taught how important our Navajo culture is to our country. For me that…

— Chester Nez

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew.

— John Foster

“late as the 1950s, a foreigner who was able to speak very good Japanese would frequently encounter people who were so conditioned to believe…

— Boyé Lafayette de Mente

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.

— Dennis Banks

When I first arrived in the country, I really didn't speak much of the language. I knew two words coming here, and they were…

— Ilhan Omar

I always have one or two, sometimes more, Navajo or other tribes' cultural elements in mind when I start a plot. In Thief of…

— Tony Hillerman

My grandmother is bilingual, but she preferred to speak Spanish at home, so she would speak to us in Spanish, and everyone responded in…

— Andrea Navedo

“A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy.”

— Max Weinreich

My CIA godfather told me he'd never heard any American speak Japanese so well.

— Steven Seagal

“Middlestein thought texting was the same as Morse code, and the more people texted, the closer American came to being a nation at war.”

— Jami Attenberg