(160 quotes found)
“So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naïve, I feel!”
Eddie Izzard
“Our country is the world, our countrymen all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us, than are those of the whole human race.”
William Lloyd Garrison
“You can't have all chiefs, you've got to have Indians too”
American Proverb
“Adieu, adieu! my native shore / Fades o'er the waters blue.”
Lord Byron
“Indians love to reduce the prosaic to the mystic”
Jan Morris
“Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action”
William Shakespeare
“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
“We talked with Native Americans whose elders passed down oral history for thousands of years, and they said they had never seen this,”
John McCain
“You stars that reigned at my nativity, / Whose influence hath allotted death and hell, / Now draw up Faustus, like a foggy mist, / Into the entrails of yon labouring cloud.”
Christopher Marlowe
“Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.”
Beau Bridges
