Dee Brown Quotes

• You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted

  Dee Brown

  Giving Up, Book, Don't Give Up

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• The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.

  Dee Brown

  America, East, Earth

  Dee Brown (1970). “Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee”

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• The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to.

  Dee Brown

  Moving, White, People

  Dee Brown (2012). “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West”, p.252, Open Road Media

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• Nothing lives long Only the earth and mountains

  Dee Brown

  Long, Mountain, Earth

  Dee Brown (2012). “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West”, p.132, Open Road Media

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• To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

  Dee Brown

  Air, Water, Bird

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• The librarians know the secrets, not the historians

  Dee Brown

  Book, Secret, Library

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• Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man...free to travel... free to stop...free to work...free to choose my own teachers...free to follow the religion of my Fathers...free to think and talk and act for myself.

  Dee Brown

  Running, Teacher, Father

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• I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

  Dee Brown

  Dog, Thinking, Use

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