Indian Quotes - Page 20

• Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both countries [Pakistan and India]. It's also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities in the region which is controlled by Indian armed forces.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, India, Atrocities

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• Those were the places where many people mixed if they wanted to mix, which was against the law [Immorality Act of 1927]. My mother was part of that group. My father was part of that group. People who were black and whites and Indian and Asian - and you came together and said, we choose to mix at the risk of being arrested. And so they did.

  Trevor Noah

  Mother, Father, Black And White

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 16, 2016.

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• If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one of the Indian casinos. The Native Americans, who stand for vertical thinking more than anyone else in our culture, have been setting up totally flat casinos for honkies.

  Robert Bly

  Native American, Thinking, Culture

  Source: www.utne.com

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• I don't say it in the Indian fashion that is hypocritically. I say it sincerely because, instead of hatred, I feel great compassion for Mujib Rahiman.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Fashion, Compassion, Hatred

  Source: dhakadigest.net

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• It is time that India legally respected the rights of LGBT persons. It is very sad that this is not enshrined in Indian law in India so far, but I do believe that soon, we will come on par with respecting the individuality of people with different sexualities.

  Kabir Bedi

  Believe, Rights, Law

  Source: www.youthkiawaaz.com

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• These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.

  William Henry Ashley

  War, Gun, Arrows

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

  Dave Attell

  Native American, Kids, Pardon Me

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

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• Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Keys, Sri Lanka

  "The Renaissance in India" by Sri Aurobindo in "Arya", intyoga.online.fr. August 1918 - November 1918.

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• Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Men, Sri Lanka, Perfect

  "The Foundations of Indian Culture". Book by Sri Aurobindo, 1953.

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• You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Hollywood Films, Acting, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth.

  Standing Bear

  Men, White Man, Dust

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• Friends and brothers, The Almighty created us Indians. We are as he made us. The Almighty has given to the whites a book to read, and they have plenty of things to work with. The Indian has no book. He cannot read.

  Standing Bear

  Brother, Book, Almighty

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• Let Indian history be set side by side with Europe history with what there is of the latter century by century and let us see whether India need blush at the comparison.

  Annie Besant

  Europe, Needs, Sides

  Annie Besant (1915). “How India Wrought for Freedom: The Story of the National Congress Told from Official Records”

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• In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.

  Joe Biden

  Moving, Growth, India

  "Political Gaffes to Spark Any Party". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with John Ydstie, www.npr.org. November 5, 2006.

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• Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

  Buffalo Bill

  Broken Heart, Government, Broken Promises

  Buffalo Bill, Buffalo Bill Historical Center (1996). “Buffalo Bill Museum”, Buffalo Bill Historical Center

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• Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living.

  Buffalo Bill

  Men, Years, Can Do

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.250, U of Nebraska Press

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• The Indians kept increasing in numbers until it was estimated that we were fighting from 800 to 1,000 of them.

  Buffalo Bill

  Fighting, Numbers

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• I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.

  Buffalo Bill

  Government, Ideas, People

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.365, U of Nebraska Press

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• On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.

  Daniel Boone

  Party, Men, July

  John Filson, Daniel Boone (1793). “The discovery, settlement and present state of Kentucky, and an introduction to the topography and natural history of that ... country. Also colonel Daniel Boon's narrative of the wars of Kentucky”, p.39

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• During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.

  Daniel Boone

  Home, Giving, Purpose

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.12, Applewood Books

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• In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.

  Daniel Boone

  Kentucky, Aggravation, Rivers

  John Filson, Daniel Boone (1793). “The discovery, settlement and present state of Kentucky, and an introduction to the topography and natural history of that ... country. Also colonel Daniel Boon's narrative of the wars of Kentucky”, p.35

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• In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people.

  H. Rap Brown

  Country, Believe, People

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• What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

  Sitting Bull

  Lonely, Native American, White

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.

  Martin Van Buren

  Home, Able, West

  Martin Van Buren (1969). “Martin Van Buren, 1782-1862: chronology-documents-bibliographical aids”

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• The case of the Seminoles constitutes at present the only exception to the successful efforts of the Government to remove the Indians to the homes assigned them west of the Mississippi.

  Martin Van Buren

  Home, Successful, Government

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.18

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