Dust Quote by Standing Bear

Friends and brothers, The Almighty created us Indians. We are as he made us. The Almighty has given to the whites a book to…

— Standing Bear

“If God really loved Indians, he would have made us white people.”

— Sherman Alexie

God is one; there are not many Gods, one for each tribe among men.

— Sathya Sai Baba

Indians, of course, have no "theology," and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who…

— Sinclair Lewis

“That was a big misunderstanding. The Indians thought that the white man’s God had powerful medicine, to be able to give white people guns…

— Win Blevins

The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.

— Nikos Kazantzakis

The Indian never hurts anything, but the white people destroy all ... How can the spirit of the earth like the white man? That…

— Pretty Shield

“Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we shall have no more wars. We shall all be alike,…

— Chief Joseph

One thing we know, which the white man may one day discover-- our God is the same God. You may think now that you…

— Chief Seattle Suquamish People 1854

God did not create man in his own image. Evidently, it was quite the other way about, which is the painless explanation for the…

— Christopher Hitchens

We have to keep our God placated with prayer, and even then we are never sure of him-how much higher and finer is the…

— Mark Twain

Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.

— Thomas A. Edison