Native Quotes - Page 29

• I'm sure you're gonna be taught, if you haven't already, that the people that were here, the Native Americans were beautiful, they were wonderful, they were at one with nature, and these evil white Europeans like Columbus came in and killed them and took them, imprisoned them, stole what was theirs, took it for ourselves.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Beautiful, Native American, White

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest.

  Terri Windling

  Native American, Years, Land

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• The native must realize that colonialism never gives anything away for nothing.

  Frantz Fanon

  Giving, Colonialism, Realizing

  Frantz Fanon (1968). “The Wretched of the Earth”

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• Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.

  Lynne Truss

  Black And White, Mammals, Pandas

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• My days – the blossom of my youth and the flower of my manhood – have been darkened by the dreariness of servitude. In this my native land – in the land of my sires – I am degraded without fault as an alien and an outcast.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Flower, Land, Faults

  Daniel O'Connell (1854). “The Select Speeches of Daniel O'Connell, M. P.”, p.81

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• Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted entity that shares the land with us.

  E. O. Wilson

  Humble, Land, Heritage

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• The South African native is probably the one impossible person to train in the entire world; he is probably impossible by any human standard.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  World, Impossible, Standards

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• Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote and isolated areas of the state.

  Rick Renzi

  Native American, Unique, Numbers

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• I represent more Native Americans than anyone else in Congress.

  Rick Renzi

  Native American, Congress

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• I have a high regard for Native languages and the pivotal role they have played in our nation's history

  Rick Renzi

  Native Language, Roles, Regard

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• We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.

  Rick Renzi

  War, Native Language, Needs

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• It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with guns, the nastiest germs, and steel?

  Jared Diamond

  Native American, Gun, Steel

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal species, so you might initially suppose that the Americas offered plenty of starting material for domestication.

  Jared Diamond

  Animal, Mammals, Might

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• Today, getting people to hear your story on social media, and then act on it, requires using a platform’s native language, paying attention to context, understanding the nuances and subtle differences that make each platform unique, and adapting your content to match.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Unique, Media, Native Language

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• The problem is, we’re all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Stories, Problem, Social Network

  "5 Reasons Everyone Hates You On Twitter" by Shanelle Mullin, www.businessinsider.com. January 16, 2014.

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• It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the Union, will have been accomplished by measures equally advantageous to the Indians. What the native savages become when surrounded by a dense population and by mixing with the whites may be seen in the miserable remnants of a few Eastern tribes, deprived of political and civil rights, forbidden to make contracts, and subjected to guardians, dragging out a wretched existence, without excitement, without hope, and almost without thought.

  Andrew Jackson

  Rights, Political, Unions

  United States. President (1829-1837 : Jackson), Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual Messages, Veto Messages, Proclamation, & C”, p.80

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• It is no difficult trick to bring a great deal of energy, study, and native ability into Wall Street and to end up with losses instead of profits. These virtues, if channeled in the wrong directions, become indistinguishable from handicaps.

  Benjamin Graham

  Wall, Loss, Energy

  Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native [sic] Americans continue to cling to the darkness of indigenous superstition instead of coming into the light of Christianity and assimilating into Christian culture.

  Bryan Fischer

  Christian, Light, Darkness

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• An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates unable to talk to each other in their native languages. The French head of the committee, who had insisted on speaking only in French throughout the week suddenly demonstrated the ability to speak excellent English with English-speaking delegates.

  Daniel Yergin

  Past, Native Language, Environmental

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• Sun and moon have no light left, earth is dark;
  Our women's world is sunk so deep, who can help us?
  Jewelry sold to pay this trip across the seas,
  Cut off from my family I leave my native land.
  Unbinding my feet I clean out a thousand years of poison,
  With heated heart arouse all women's spirits.
  Alas, this delicate kerchief here
  Is half stained with blood, and half with tears.

  Qiu Jin

  Heart, Dark, Cutting

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• When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.

  Victor Cousin

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Race

  Victor Cousin (1852). “Course of the History of Modern Philosophy”, p.32

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• Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.

  John Milton

  Summer, Dream, Children

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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• When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Love, Simple, Rose

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• When at eve, at the bounding of the landscape, the heavens appear to recline so slowly on the earth, imagination pictures beyond the horizon an asylum of hope, - a native land of love; and nature seems silently to repeat that man is immortal.

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Nature, Men

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• To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand, Ah! Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beauty, Home, Hair

  "To Helen" l. 8 (1831)

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