Russell Means Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.

True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself.

Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.

I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot.

I never knew I was an artist until I did 'Last of the Mohicans'.

I've always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you're still alive.

The United States is a fake country.

May the Great Mystery continue to guide and protect the paths of you and your loved ones.

That's our charge as ancestors of unborn generations: to once again become free.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

Indian people are relics; we do not exist in the present.

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

I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.

I've always considered myself a man of integrity as a leader of the American Indian Movement and of Indian people. I will stand that test against anyone at anytime, anywhere.