Indian Quotes - Page 10

I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.

Loretta Lynn

Thinking, Proud, Way

Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, Vintage

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I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

John McLaughlin

Music, School, Mean

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'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

Russell Means

Usa, People, Century

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Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to know what we have done and accomplished in this century other than what Olympic athletes Jim Thorpe and Billy Mills have done.

Russell Means

Hero, Athlete, People

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So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.

Russell Means

Government, People, Corporations

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In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.

Russell Means

School, Thinking, Government

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Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain.

Russell Means

Spiritual, Order, People

"I Am Not a Leader": Russell Means’ 1980 Mother Jones Cover Story, www.motherjones.com.

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I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.

Maria Mitchell

Air, Breathing, Wander

Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

Evo Morales

Political, Enemy, Culture

"Capitalism Has Only Hurt Latin America". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city.

Evo Morales

Animal, Cities, Ddt

"Capitalism Has Only Hurt Latin America". SPIEGEL Interview, www.sott.net. August 28, 2006.

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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.

V. S. Naipaul

Fate, Squares, India

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Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.

Robert Orben

Humorous, Native American, Profound

"They Said What?". Manly Daily, August 05, 2008.

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When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes.

Susan Orlean

Halloween, Holiday, Kids

"Haunted" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2010.

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When I venture out to eat, I like to go to places with food that I don't know how to make. So my favorites are Japanese and Indian. Indian food has so much layering of flavor, and the dishes go together so harmoniously.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Together, Flavor, Venture

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All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.

Pat Paulsen

Government, Immigration, United States

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As the Indian government has embraced greater economic openness, the creativity and expertise of the Indian workforce has been unleashed onto the world economic stage.

Henry Paulson

Creativity, Government, World

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In them days, it was just still not illegal to kill an Indian. If you killed an Indian, you'd be very unfortunate if you got probation - most of them were released immediately.

Leonard Peltier

Illegal, Probation, Unfortunate

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But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves," was my saying, whenever I'd had to turn my head around involuntarily to stare at the incomparable pretties of Indian Mexico.

Jack Kerouac

Girl, Lying, Princess

Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.29, Penguin

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My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the ticking of a clock; for I lived like the Puri Indians, of whom it is said that "for yesterday, today, and tomorrow they have only one word, and they express the variety of meaning by pointing backward for yesterday forward for tomorrow, and overhead for the passing day." This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have been found wanting.

Henry David Thoreau

Flower, Yesterday, Bird

Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Indiana,’ he said. ‘They steal the land from the Indians and leave the name, yes?

John Green

Land, Names, Indiana

John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.92, Penguin

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…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi

Virchand Gandhi

Wife, India, Empresses

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We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only but on all the days of the week. We believe in the law of universal justice — that our present condition is the result of our past actions and that we are not subjected to the freaks of an irresponsible governor, who is prosecutor and judge at the same time; we depend for our salvation on our own acts and deeds and not on the sacrificial death of an attorney.

Virchand Gandhi

Believe, Sunday, Men

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"I thought Indians built fires with fiction." .... "I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next day or so. Sterno and Bic are much faster."

Patricia Briggs

Fire, Next Day, Fiction

"Cry Wolf". Book by Patricia Briggs, July 2008.

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How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elephant. It was never more applicable than to the present subject. If the material world rests upon a similar ideal world, this ideal world must rest upon some other; and so on, without end. It were better, therefore, never to look beyond the present material world.

David Hume

Elephants, Looks, Stories

David Hume (2013). “Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess.

Wilma Mankiller

Native American, Race, Government

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