Civil rights Quote by Timothy Egan

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk about freely, make my own meals,…

— Jack Handey

The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to…

— John Sutter

“This (white settlers) was the section of humanity that was favored in that place, the Indians had no place no more there. Their tickets…

— Sebastian Barry

It is this subtle dimension of understanding that marks the southwestern Indian peoples from other religions and separates tribal peoples from the world's religions.…

— Vine Deloria Jr

The Indians may have in their religion and culture a reverence for the land. But then they get into the pressures created by modern…

— Stewart Udall

Religion in India culminates in freedom.

— Swami Vivekananda

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

— Anonymous

“The little settlements we lived in-He-Dog, Upper Cut Meat, Parmelee, St. Francis, Belvidere-were places without hope where bodies and souls were being destroyed bit…

— Mary Crow Dog

It was easier to deal with poverty and death in India that the lack of spirituality in America.

— Mother Teresa

“Early farming villages worldwide were much less authoritarian places than later societies. But the Indians of the eastern seaboard institutionalized their liberty to an…

— Charles C. Mann

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

The Indians had to be either killed, or herded into reservations, which were essentially concentration camps, and forgotten. Their history had to be absolutely…

— Richard Rodriguez