American Quote by William Barr

In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we…

— Jim Yong Kim

The first function of violence in Native American literatures is simply to acknowledge that violence is implicit, like gravity and sunlight, in the world…

— Robert Bringhurst

North America is not altogether to blame with regard to her Indians. If the Indian had been more susceptible to higher culture, violence and…

— Fredrika Bremer

Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community.

— Robert Bly

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

“(Speaking of epidemics, one of three Native American women will be raped, and on the reservations 88 percent of those rapes are by non-Native…

— Rebecca Solnit

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

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

Native Americans have faced centuries of atrocities to their people, their land, and their culture - all under various presidents who took an oath…

— Markwayne Mullin

There is so much joy in native culture but so much poverty. It's very disturbing.

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

What we have done with the American Indian is its way as bad as what we imposed on the Negroes. We took a proud…

— Richard M. Nixon

Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native [sic] Americans continue to cling to the darkness of…

— Bryan Fischer