Appreciate Quote by Nelson A. Miles

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

— Samuel Johnson

The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus…

— Susanna Moodie

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

— Margaret Fuller

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

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

“As a result of that confined distribution, peoples who pride themselves on being civilized have always viewed writing as the sharpest distinction raising them…

— Jared Diamond

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Fascinating, often hilarious, always devastatingly truthful, The Inconvenient Indian is destined to become a classic of historical narrative. For those who wish to better…

— Joseph Boyden

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

“Most Indians' deliberate, cultivated, amoral innocence about what is happening there, what is being done in their name, becomes hard to bear.”

— Arundhati Roy

The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson