Native American Quotes - Page 6

• Every struggle, whether won or lost, strengthens us for the next to come. It is not good for people to have an easy life. They become weak and inefficient when they cease to struggle. Some need a series of defeats before developing the strength and courage to win a victory.

  Victorio

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.

  Black Elk

  Circles, Doe, Done

  "The Sacred Pipe : Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux" recorded and edited by Joseph Epes Brown, (Ch. 17), 1961.

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• I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.

  Black Elk

  Beautiful, Dream, Children

  "Black Elk Speaks". Book by John Gneisenau Neihardt, 1932.

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• The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Religious, War, Fruit

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “Religion”, p.55, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.

  Mary Brave Bird

  Inspirational, Mother, Blood

  Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.220, Grove Press

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• Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later and they still cant see us. We are still invisible.

  John Trudell

  Years, Savages, Pagan

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• You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were discovered.

  Ivan van Sertima

  Discovery, People, Understanding

  Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, John Henrik Clarke “Dr. Ivan Van Sertima- 8 DVD video lectures: 8 DVDs, Best viewed on wifi on phones or tablets. iPads or Android (use google Play Book app to view. Gmail account required)”, Clemson Brown

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• Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

  Black Elk

  Children, Heart, Men

  "The Sacred Pipe : Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux" recorded and edited by Joseph Epes Brown, 1953.

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• Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again.

  Crazy Horse

  Blessing, Circles, Native Country

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• Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell, to look where there was apparently nothing to see, and to listen intently when all seemingly was quiet. A child who cannot sit still is a half-developed child.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Children, Smell, Training

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• If you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

  Pocahontas

  Compassion, Films And Movies, Stranger

  Song: Colors Of The Wind

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• [last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.

  Crowfoot

  Sunset, Firefly, Night

  "Aging in the Modern World: Selections from the Literature of Aging for Pleasure and Instruction". Book by ‎Clark Tibbitts, p. 222, 1957.

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• We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Believe, Perfect, Silence

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• Silence,they say,is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is the message,just as doing nothing is an act. Let who you are ring out and resonate in every word and deed. Yes,become who you are. There's no sidestepping your own being or your own responsibility. What you do is who you are. You are your own comeuppance. You become your own message. You are the message. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.

  Leonard Peltier

  Horse, Crazy, Responsibility

  Leonard Peltier (2016). “Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance”, p.216, St. Martin's Griffin

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• America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and a large part of its "dream" from Native Americans.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Dream, Medicine, Justice

  Paula Gunn Allen (1986). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• By holding to the first woman, the first black, the first homosexual, the first transgender, the first native American, the first whatever, there is also something else more hideous that is woven into this intricate web of deceit, and that is the built-in excuse to why they might or will fail. It's because America is unjust. When you have the first woman to do something, the media questions, "Why haven't there been more?" Well, America is unfair, unjust, bigoted, sexist, and misogynistic.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Black, Deceit, Failing

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly, because your hands are so busy clasping what you think you have always known.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Opportunity, Thinking, Hands

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• Tribe follows tribe, nations follow nations like the tides of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

  Chief Seattle

  Regret, Order, Sea

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• Native Americans were driven off their land. Lincoln even took part in the Black Hawk campaign against the Native Americans in Illinois. While they were being exterminated and driven off their land, Whites were collecting assets.

  Ishmael Reed

  Illinois, Land, Black

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth.

  Chief Joseph

  Tired, Heart, Men

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• Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.

  Robbie Robertson

  Guilt, Way, Dignity

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• All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.

  Chief Joseph

  Mother, Running, Brother

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina.

  Maria Tallchief

  Appreciated, American Indian, Ballerina

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• American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.

  David Mamet

  Soccer, Football, Moving

  "Ultimate fighting: the final frontier" by David Mamet, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2007.

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• I was born where there were no enclosures.

  Geronimo

  Apaches, Born, Enclosure

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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