Indian Quotes - Page 21

• The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Cutting, Men

  William S. Burroughs (2013). “The Place of Dead Roads: A Novel”, p.42, Holt Paperbacks

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• Indians were here first - it's about time. We're way behind the African Americans and Hispanic Americans in getting politically involved, but we're beginning to take a page out of their notebook.

  Ben Nighthorse Campbell

  Notebook, African American, Pages

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• Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Slave Ships, People, West

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• 'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.

  Chris Cornell

  Song, Writing, Rocks

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• There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.

  George Armstrong Custer

  Funny, Humor, World

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• At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

  e. e. cummings

  Children, Father, America

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• It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.

  Jared Diamond

  Native American, Epidemics, Giving

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• Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands.

  Jared Diamond

  Military, Native American, Army

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• Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.

  Jared Diamond

  Literature, World, Disease

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• We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit.

  Katherine Dunham

  African American, Rooms, American Indian

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• I can still remember the feel in my hand of that most wonderful American coin ever minted, a nickel with a buffalo on one side and the head of an Indian on the other. That nickel was a daily proof of our country's past. Bring it back!

  Paul Engle

  Country, Past, Hands

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• I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.

  Bob Feller

  Military, Team, August

  "Once Upon a Game: Baseball's Greatest Memories". Book by Alan Schwarz, www.nytimes.com. 2007.

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• I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to Indian powwows and Buddhist temples. But over a period of time, with reading and thinking, I started to feel it was all so absurd: The whole idea of life after death is ridiculous.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Reading

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• The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Dog, Horse, Cows

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• We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven’t been addressed and I’d like to stand with them. Also, I’d like to get their views on immigration.

  Al Franken

  Unique, Views, Immigration

  Interview with Chris Weigant, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2008.

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• By 'flat' I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That's why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.

  Thomas Friedman

  Mean, Doctors, Office Work

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• The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Writing, White, Black

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• Millions of Indians are brimming with energy.

  Rahul Gandhi

  Energy, Millions

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• The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

  Geronimo

  Government, Racism, Soldier

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• I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

  Geronimo

  Sleep, Wind, People

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• There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all those Swedish farmwives from beyond the grave who were like, 'Go! Go to Naples! Eat more pizza! Go to India, ride an elephant! Do it! Swim in the Indian Ocean. Read those books. Learn a language.'

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Ocean, Book, Swear To God

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• We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

  Dick Gregory

  Book, Thinking, Roots

  Dick Gregory, Robert Lipsyte (1990). “Nigger”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Certainly, historically, there has been more attention given in the international media to Indian English-language writers than to Pakistani English-language writers. But that, in my opinion, was justified by the sheer number of excellent writers coming from India and the Indian diaspora.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Numbers, Media, Diaspora

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• But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Religious, Chinese, Sublime

  Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.107, tredition

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• I do love Italian food. Any kind of pasta or pizza. My new pig out food is Indian food. I eat Indian food like three times a week. It's so good.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Food, Italian, Pigs

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