Indian Quotes - Page 12

• Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?

  Edward Hoagland

  Opportunity, Land, Tribes

  Edward Hoagland (2014). “On Nature: Selected Essays”, p.100, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.

  Skeet Ulrich

  Holocaust, Needs, Looks

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• I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music.

  Link Wray

  Music, Spiritual, Believe

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• The sun is a huntress young,
  The sun is a red, red joy,
  The sun is an Indian girl,
  Of the tribe of the Illinois.
  The sun is a smouldering fire,
  That creeps through the high gray plain,
  And leaves not a bush of cloud
  To blossom with flowers of rain.
  The sun is a wounded deer,
  That treads pale grass in the skies,
  Shaking his golden horns,
  Flashing his baleful eyes.
  The sun is an eagle old,
  There in the windless west.
  Atop of the spirit-cliffs
  He builds him a crimson nest.

  Vachel Lindsay

  Girl, Rain, Flower

  Vachel Lindsay (1992). “The Congo and Other Poems”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• Where I'm is one of those stair climbing machines the agent has installed. You climb and climb forever and never get off the ground. You're trapped in your hotel room. It's the mystical sweat love lodge experience of our time, the only sort of Indian vision quest we can schedule into our daily planner.Our Stair Master to Heaven.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love, Sweat, Climbing

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• The horror of Gandhi's murder lies not in the political motives behind it or in its consequences for Indian policy or for the future of non-violence; the horror lies simply in the fact that any man could look into the face of this extraordinary person and deliberately pull a trigger.

  Mary McCarthy

  Lying, Men, Extraordinary Person

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• For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State (that is to say, of the commerce between citizen and citizen,) which remain exclusively with its own legislature; but to its external commerce only, that is to say, its commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or with the Indian tribes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Regulation, Tribes, Doe

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.524

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• You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you see a ship's wake in the Indian Ocean and brush fires in Africa and a lightning storm walking its way across Australia. You see the reds and the pinks of the Australian desert, and it's just like a stereoscopic view of all nature, except you're a hundred ninety miles up.

  Joseph P. Allen

  Ocean, Fire, Clouds

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• What a shame that Christianity had come here!If the white man had not intruded where he was not wanted, where he did not belong, even now protected by the mountains and the river,the village would have remained a last stronghold of a culture which was almost gone.Mark tried to say that no village,no culture can remain static. I have often thought that if this lively and magnificent land belongs to anyone,it's to the birds and the fish.They were here long before the first Indian and when the last man is gone from the Earth,it will be theirs again.

  Margaret Craven

  Men, Land, Rivers

  Margaret Craven (1973). “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”

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• While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these cultures against their colonial consequences. Islamic, Indian, or African civilizations were invented contrapuntally by Orientalism... in order to match, balance and thus authenticate 'Western Civilization'.

  Hamid Dabashi

  Islamic, Thinking, Order

  "For the Last Time: Civilizations". International Sociology, Volume 16, Issue 3, September 01, 2001.

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• We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to the growth of Canadian institutions.

  Harold Innis

  Growth, Culture, Fundamentals

  Harold Innis (2017). “The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History”, p.318, University of Toronto Press

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• Indian forms of yoga have spread throughout the world due to their objectives of promoting health and harmony. Japan is but one of many countries that have received these age-old teachings. While Indian yogic disciplines (Hatha yoga in particular) have become well known, not everyone realizes that certain distinctive Japanese versions of Indian spiritual paths have evolved. Perhaps the first of these unique methodologies is the art of Shin-shin-toitsu-do, which was developed by Nakamura Tempu Sensei (1876-1968). In fact, Nakamura Sensei is often considered to be the father of yoga in Japan.

  H. E Davey

  Spiritual, Country, Art

  "Japanese Yoga: The Way of Dynamic Meditation". Book by H.E.Davey, 2001.

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• They [some countries] borrowed money to go acquire things, Indian power plants and Danish newspapers and British soccer teams. And they did it willy-nilly, and they themselves a story, that Icelandic history and culture and DNA leaves us very well-suited to being investment bankers.

  Michael Lewis

  Soccer, Country, Team

  "Michael Lewis’ 'Boomerang': 'Money Thrown Out in Hope, Coming Back in Anger'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2011.

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• My childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent. But it was a great time to grow up, the '70s and '80s in Brooklyn, East Flatbush. It was culturally diverse: You had Italian culture, American culture, the Caribbean West Indian culture, the Hasidic Jewish culture. Everything was kind of like right there in your face. A lot of violence, you know, especially toward the '80s the neighborhood got really violent, but it made me who I am, it made me strong.

  Michael K. Williams

  Strong, Growing Up, Italian

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Every Indian kid has access to MySpace and Facebook. But that doesn't mean they have access to books and great teachers. This idea about bringing digital tech into schools is great, but once again I'll say that this is not how people actually learn.

  Sherman Alexie

  Teacher, Book, School

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• There's this whole notion of being an Indian - the idea that "warrior" is a positive description of us [Indians as native Americans]. When an Indian guy does well, he's a warrior, even now. He could be a computer salesman, but if he does well, he's a warrior. I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.

  Sherman Alexie

  War, Native American, Ideas

  "Sherman Alexie: Don’t Call Me Warrior". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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• I think it was so unfair that people attacked Freida Pinto for being an Indian, playing a Palestinian.

  Julian Schnabel

  Thinking, People, Unfair

  Source: collider.com

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• The way of presentation is different according to each religion. In theistic religions like Buddhism, Buddhist values are incorporated. In nontheistic religions, like some types of ancient Indian thought, the law of karma applies. If you do something good, you get a good result. Now, what we need is a way to educate nonbelievers. These nonbelievers may be critical of all religions, but they should be decent at heart.

  Dalai Lama

  Karma, Buddhist, Heart

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 1, 2006.

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• My mother's mother is Jewish and African, so I guess that would be considered Creole. My mother's father was Cherokee Indian and something else. My dad's mother's Puerto Rican and black, and his father was from Barbados.

  Meagan Good

  Mother, Dad, Father

  "Meagan Good: The Unborn Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. January 20, 2009.

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• Imperialism is the factor in American policy, not just since 1898, but in fact long before it when we were expanding across this continent and taking away Indian lands in order to enlarge the territory of the United States. We have been an imperial power and an expansionist power for a very long time.

  Howard Zinn

  Order, Land, Long

  Source: bad.eserver.org

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• The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Air, Water, Spinning

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Majority, Transition, Spinning

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.230, Grove Press

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• The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spinning, Wheels, Study

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

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• My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Political, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.101, A&C Black

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• If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Land, India, Welcome

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.40, Penguin Books India

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