(160 quotes found)
“They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.”
Red Cloud
“Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter'”
Andy Rooney
“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
Robert Orben
“From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth; but in reality they are far happier than we Europeans, being wholly unacquainted not only with the superfluous, but”
James Cook
“Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed”
Casey Miller
“I can speak Esperanto like a native.”
Spike Milligan
“We can try to kill all that is native, string it up by its hind legs for all to see, but spirit howls and wildness endures.”
Terry Tempest Williams
“The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.”
Stewart L. Udall
“The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.”
Eric Hoffer
