American Quotes
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.
Brothers, we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other's battles; and more than all, we must love the Great Spirit.
One of the greatest pleasures of my life has been that I have never stopped learning about Good Cooking and Good Food
There's a category for me. I like to be referred to as a good singer of good songs in good taste.
Black painters have done all kinds of work. It's the treatment of forms they engage in-that's what determines the value of the work, not whether you call them a black artist or not.
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.
The Clan Mothers ran everything and had the last word. I think that's the answer.
I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
We need a very progressive and strong agenda to bring people into the political process because I worry very much about the future of the American democracy where so many people are giving up.
It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.
No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.
When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.
There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice.
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But its a joke, a blot on American history.
When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.
There's one beneficial effect of going to Moscow. You come home waving the American flag with all your might.
I think the American Dream should be about a greater progressive legislation that allows for what I call a necessary future world of cooperational humanism.
It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.
Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.
It is important to understand that there are many different ways of seeing the world and expressing the wisdom of Native belief...No one voice speaks for all voices.
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.
To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.
When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
They say there are about 12 million illegal immigrants in this country. But if you ask a Native American, that number is more like 300 million.
A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.
I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.