Native American Indian Quotes
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.
I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave off.
I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.
Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.
Who can declare that money is not a power which rulers of the world cannot withstand?
There is no man who is enterprising and keeps well up with the times but confesses that the women of to-day are in every respect, except political liberty, equal to the men.
No, no, my friend. You are kind, and you mean well, but you can never understand these things as I do. You've never been oppressed.