Mary Brave Bird Quotes

• 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, Native American

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

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• The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

  Mary Brave Bird

  Law, Mind, Purpose

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• Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

  Mary Brave Bird

  Political, Moral, Force

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• I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.

  Mary Brave Bird

  War, Lasts, Environment

  Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.274, Grove Press

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• There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means never looking at the clock. ... There is not even a word for time in our language.

  Mary Brave Bird

  Time, Mean, Men

  Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.37, Grove Press

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• To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

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  White, Class, Use

  "Lakota Woman". Book by Mary Brave Bird edited by Richard Erdoes (p. 244), 1990.

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• We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.

  Mary Brave Bird

  Generations, Gaps, Canyons

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• People who want to be tattooed don't always have good taste.

  Mary Brave Bird

  People, Want, Taste

  Mary Brave Bird (2014). “Ohitika Woman”, p.154, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises.

  Mary Brave Bird

  Meaningful, Justice, Diversity

  Mary Brave Bird (2014). “Ohitika Woman”, p.140, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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