Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States - the cultural destruction.

The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.

Freedom is for everyone, whatever lifestyle they choose, as long as it's peaceful and honest

It’s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.

'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe.

I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated.

If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free.

If you learn from an experience, that's good - so nothing bad happened to you.

Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.

They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry

Happiness doesn't come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do.

To be a hero means being the author of your own myth.

Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character.

When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

When you believe that you can do something that's when you can do it.

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

The common damn'd shun their society.

I believe in opportunity and the power of reason to seize upon it.

I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody down - no matter what you do, you're always going to have haters.