Indian Quotes - Page 40

• I think awards in this country at this time are inappropriate to be received or given until the condition of the American Indian is drastically altered. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

  Marlon Brando

  Country, Brother, Thinking

  Marlon Brando's speech written for the Academy Awards, as it appeared in the New York Times, March 30, 1973.

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• I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a species. In other words, I reject a racial classification of humans for the same reasons that I prefer not to divide into subspecies the prodigiously variable West Indian land snails that form the subject of my own research.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Land, Differentiation, Research

  "Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Why We Should Not Name Human Races - A Biological View", p. 231, 1977.

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• September 11 was a day of de-Enlightenment. Politics stood revealed as a veritable Walpurgis Night of the irrational. And such old, old stuff. The conflicts we now face or fear involve opposed geographical arenas, but also opposed centuries or even millennia. It is a landscape of ferocious anachronisms: nuclear jihad in the Indian subcontinent; the medieval agonism of Islam; the Bronze Age blunderings of the Middle East.

  Martin Amis

  Night, September 11, Islam

  "The voice of the lonely crowd" by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2002.

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• Virtually the entire inflow was therefore Asiatic, and all but three or four thousand of that inflow originated from the Indian subcontinent... It is by 'black Power' that the headlines are caught, and under the shape of the negro that the consequences for Britain of immigration and what is miscalled 'race' are popularly depicted. Yet it is more truly when he looks into the eyes of Asia that the Englishman comes face to face with those who will dispute with him the possession of his native land.

  Enoch Powell

  Eye, Race, Land

  "Still to Decide" by Enoch Powell, Eliot Right Way Books, (p. 209), 1972.

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• Black men, Indian men, and gay men have all have something in common: They do not provide an economic security blanket for women.

  Warren Farrell

  Gay, Men, Black

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• If Slumdog Millionaire projects India as a Third World, dirty-underbelly, developing nation and causes pain and disgust among nationalists and patriots, let it be known that a murky underbelly exists and thrives even in the most developed nations. It's just that the Slumdog Millionaire idea authored by an Indian and conceived and cinematically put together by a Westerner, gets creative Golden Globe recognition. The other would perhaps not.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Pain, Dirty, Ideas

  "Slumdogs who seek success". The Independent, News, p. 30, January 16, 2009.

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• It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow.

  Jean Chretien

  Mother, Boys, Cities

  "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chrétien, 1985.

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• If you look at the India-US relationship for example, the role that the Indian diaspora has played in the relationship is extremely crucial. Yes, we share democratic values but there is also the great role that the Indian diaspora has played in strengthening the bond of friendship between India and the US, and of course in underscoring the democratic values between the two countries.

  Narendra Modi

  Country, Two, India

  "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim and Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 7, 2015.

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• The treatment of children in Indian residential schools is a sad chapter in our history... Two primary objectives of the residential schools system were to remove and isolate children from the influence of their homes, families, traditions and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant culture.

  Stephen Harper

  Children, Home, School

  Stephen Harper's Statement of Apology, www.cbc.ca. June 11, 2008.

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• There was no private property in the past. Everything was communal property. In the Indian community where I was born, everything belonged to the community. This way of life is more equitable.

  Evo Morales

  Past, Community, Way

  "'Capitalism Has Only Hurt Latin America'". Interview with Jens Glüsing, Hans Hoyng, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• Most liberal-minded folk would like to think that since they are not hostile to people of a different race, racism is a disease of the uneducated, unenlightened and socially backward - football hooligans, British National Party supporters, policemen. You could call this the Bad Guy Theory. But the Bad Guy Theory does not explain why Indian-heritage children do nearly twice as well as Pakistani-heritage children at GCSE.

  Trevor Phillips

  Football, Children, Party

  The Times, October 29, 2004.

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• In Indian civilization I am a Baptist, because I believe in immersing the Indians in our civilization and when we get them under holding them there until they are thoroughly soaked.

  Richard Henry Pratt

  Believe, Civilization, Baptists

  Richard Henry Pratt, Robert Marshall Utley (1979). “The Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania: Its Origins, Purposes, Progress, and the Difficulties Surmounted”

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• Ultimately, the Indian public is not fool. They can spot the difference between what is said for effect and what is done in reality. Whether it is politicians or actors or social activists, they know for sure whom to trust or not.

  Rahul Bose

  Reality, Differences, Fool

  "'Indian Public Is Not Fool' - Rahul Bose" by Joginder Tuteja, www.filmibeat.com. October 8, 2009.

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• the voices of our ancestors telling of our glorious past, our culture, and what it means to be an Indian.

  Allen Sapp

  Mean, Past, Voice

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• It made me feel good to know that we had such a great country like Canada where even a poor Indian from the Red Pheasant reserve could make it to the top.

  Allen Sapp

  Country, Feel Good, Patriotism

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• In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one day everyone, or at least practically everyone, would be a manager or a professional. We would use the most elitist of all means, scholarship, toward the most egalitarian of ends. We would all become chiefs; hardly anyone would be left a mere Indian.

  William A. Henry III

  Dream, Mean, Vision

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• Swami Vivekananda: The genuine orator exercises a sort of hypnotism over his audience. I have listened to many orators, Indian, English and American; but Keshub Chunder Sen is easily the greatest of all.

  Keshub Chandra Sen

  Exercise, Vivekananda, Genuine

  Quoted by Charu Chandra Banerjee in a speech at Dhaka Purva Bangla Brahmo Samaj; "Brahmananda Keshub Chunder Sen: Testimonies in Memoriam" compiled by G.C.Banerji, Allahabad, 1934.

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• Consciousness is a singular of which the plural is unknown. There is only one thing and that which seems to be a plurality is merely a series of different aspects of this one thing, produced by a deception, the Indian maya, as in a gallery of mirrors.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Mirrors, Deception, Different

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• You can begin to see an amalgamation of cultures, the real beginning of one world. Ten years ago, it would have been impossible to imagine a Cockney singing group with a Southern Negro style and Indian and electronic music. I wonder if people have even noticed what a tremendous cultural signal the Beatles are.

  Alan Arkin

  Real, Years, People

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• The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read. Instead of which, they're all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements.

  Aravind Adiga

  Book, Color, Sitting

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Mary Brave Bird

  White, Class, Use

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

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• Indian film awards lack credibility.

  Aamir Khan

  Awards, Film, Credibility

  "Aamir Khan’s defiant stand against Bollywood awards" by Anil Sinanan, www.thetimes.co.uk. February 27, 2008.

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• I like singing in the street, so if you saw a little Indian kid walking on the street singing loudly, that was probably me.

  Sanjaya Malakar

  Kids, Singing, Littles

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• That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this country is an intolerable situation which calls for immediate action.

  Syama Prasad Mukherjee

  Country, Years, Population

  Speech delivered at Nagpur University Convocation on 5th December 1936, "Educational Speeches" by Dr. Shyamaprasad Mookerjee, A.Mukherjee & Co. (Private) Ltd., 2 College Square, Kolkata 700 012, 1959.

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• What we deplore is not that the gate of western knowledge was thrown open to Indians, but that such knowledge was imported to India at the sacrifice of our own cultural heritage. What was needed was a proper synthesis between the two systems and not neglect, far less destruction, of the Indian base.

  Syama Prasad Mukherjee

  Sacrifice, Two, India

  Speech delivered at Gurkula Visvavidyalaya Convocation on 25th April 1943, "Educational Speeches" by Dr. Shyamaprasad Mookerjee, A.Mukherjee & Co. (Private) Ltd., 2 College Square, Kolkata 700 012, 1959.

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