Freedom Quote by Thomas King

“The trouble is Indians aren't used to being prosperous. We are more comfortable dealing with poverty- after all, poverty has been the staple here,…

— Shobhaa De

“Doesn't an Indian tribe finally surrender to colonization by becoming as capitalistic as our conquerors? Isn't indigenous economic sovereignty one of the sneakiest damn…

— Sherman Alexie

“The equating of primitive culture with backwardness has been so ingrained in the popular mind that even so-called civilized Indians on the lowest, most…

— Scott Wallace

“The government and the mining companies are digging away in villages, virgin forests, pure rivers, and the very values of equality and constitutionality. So…

— Josy Joseph

Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part…

— Russell Means

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do…

— Evo Morales

“The Indians must conform to 'the white man’s ways', peaceably if they will, forcibly if they must. They must adjust themselves to their environment,…

— Thomas Morgan U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs

In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Let us rededicate ourselves to the principle that all Americans have the tools to make the most of their God-given potential. For Indian tribes…

— William J. Clinton

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

— Arundhati Roy

Few Indians realise that the shift towards a market economy requires us to be alert and to fight for our rights and very few…

— Sucheta Dalal

“Rich Indians typically tried to work around a dysfunctional government. Private security was hired, city water was filtered, private school tuitions were paid. Such…

— Katherine Boo