American indian Quote by Robert A. Williams, Jr

Western civilization has been at war with tribalism for 3,000 years. And that war was brought to the New World by the English colonists.…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

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

I see, or at least it appears to me, that there is some concerted effort to discredit them, and categorize the American Indian Movement…

— Leonard Peltier

“…but the image of a “fatal” disappearance of the “vanishing American” allows Indian ancestry - as opposed to African American “blood” - to function…

— Alessandro Portelli

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

The more we study the Indian's character the more we appreciate the marked distinction between the civilized being and the real savage.

— Nelson A. Miles

It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will…

— Andrew Jackson

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

The American public has difficulty believing ... [that] injustice continues to be inflicted upon Indian people because Americans assume that the sympathy and tolerance…

— Leslie Marmon Silko

The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If you're an Indian, you could be very anxious about some of the Supreme Court's decisions, some of the decisions of policy makers, so…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

“Many of these mixed-blood Indian people were eventually forced into hiding or denial of their Indian ancestry because of their fear of removal to…

— Rickey Butch Walker