Native American Quotes - Page 19

• Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

  Paul Fussell

  College, People, Car

  Paul Fussell (1984). “Class”

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• Always give a word or a sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend,even a stranger, when in a lonely place. Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.

  Tecumseh

  Lonely, Morning, Lying

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we've got some very sad and difficult things to account for. I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged. I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Believe, Issues

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• I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch of different things, Irish Polish, Native American, and French, but I wanted to tap into that Irish side and be freckle-y with black hair, so that's what I did.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Hair, Black, Different

  "JoJo Dishes on Her New Album - and Hair!". "Seventeen" Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 6, 2011.

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• When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dog, Winning, Moments

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• Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision.

  Tecumseh

  Wise, Abuse, Vision

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you.

  Geronimo

  Live Life, Medieval War, Creator

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• Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors - the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.

  Chief Seattle

  Dream, Heart, Night

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• The beauty of the trees, the softness of the air, the fragrance of the grass, they speak to me. The summit of the mountain, the thunder of the sky, the rhythm of the sea, speaks to me. The faintness of the stars, the freshness of the morning, the dewdrop on the flower, speaks to me. The strength of the fire, the taste of the salmon, the trail of the sun, and the life that never goes away, they speak to me. And my heart soars.

  Chief Dan George

  Morning, Nature, Stars

  Chief Dan George, “My Heart Soars”

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• Help me always to speak the truth quietly, to listen with an open mind when others speak, and to remember the peace that may be found in silence.

  Robert Muller

  Attitude, Silence, Mind

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• The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Sides, Unbelievable, Tragic

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• On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.

  Ken Salazar

  Country, New Relationship, Years

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• Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

  Harold Geneen

  Work, Achieve, Results

  "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, p. 86, 1984.

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• I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.

  Chaske Spencer

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• One thing to remember is to talk to the animals. If you do, they will talk back to you. But if you don't talk to the animals, they won't talk back to you, then you won't understand, and when you don't understand you will fear, and when you fear you will destroy the animals, and if you destroy the animals, you will destroy yourself.

  Chief Dan George

  Animal, Remember, One Thing

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• Any good thing you say to me shall not be forgotten. I shall carry it as near to my heart as my children, and it shall be as often on my tongue as the name of the Great Spirit.

  Ten Bears

  Children, Heart, Names

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• I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

  Alan Robinson

  Ancestry, Knows, Native

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• When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.

  Dave Attell

  Kids, Pardon Me, Indian

  "Random Rules: Dave Attell". Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. February 01, 2008.

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• I think that the whole stigma of the name may still burn deep with some of the Native people, but there are some that it doesn't bother. They actually think it brings enlightenment to the contributions that the Native Americans had in the establishment of our country, but I haven't come up with an idea. I'm not saying the name "Redskins" wasn't derogatory, but the actual changing the name to the Washington Redskins was an honorary move.

  Donte Stallworth

  Country, Moving, Thinking

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• In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures.

  Winona LaDuke

  Integrity, Government, Culture

  Winona LaDuke (2016). “Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming”, p.10, Haymarket Books

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• Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. “What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America” is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, “our Original Sin.

  James W. Loewen

  Past, Culture, Exotic

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.117, The New Press

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• Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

  Michael Tippett

  Art, Score, Music Is

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• Growing up on the border there, we were always frustrated with people's pronunciations of towns in Michigan, and people mispronouncing Illinois. There are all these Native American words that no one really knows how to pronounce.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Growing Up, Illinois, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. July 13, 2005.

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• Puerto Ricans are Americans. We've been American citizens since 1917. We fought the same battles, made the same sacrifices. We've lost our land in the same way that Native Americans lost their land, and we've been the subject of discrimination and racism in the same way that African Americans have. We've suffered the full spectrum of oppression, and yet we've been off the map 4,000 miles away so we haven't even been able to argue our case.

  Nelson Antonio Denis

  Sacrifice, Land, Racism

  "The Lost History of Puerto Rico’s Independence Movement". Interview with AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2015.

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• I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Respect, Thinking, Stronger

  Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays”, p.79, University of Georgia Press

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