American Quotes
American Quote of the day
I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.
The thing to do is to get organized; keep separated and you will be exploited, you will be robbed, you will be killed. Get organized and you will compel the world to respect you.
We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings.
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.
I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one.
No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.
I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole earth will become One Circle again.
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future - you create the future. The future is created through hard work.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Exploiting the stupidity of the American voter is fun and easy: kinda like squeezing a lemon.
When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.
Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an American Indian ballerina.
There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.
When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
At the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit. And that center is really everywhere. It is within each of us.
The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality.
It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.
I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
American life, in large cities, is a perpetual assault on the senses and the nerves; it is out of asceticism, out of unworldliness, precisely, that we bear it.
Cows run away from the storm while the buffalo charges toward it - and gets through it quicker. Whenever I’m confronted with a tough challenge, I do not prolong the torment, I become the buffalo.
Burn my Flag and I will shoot you........but I'll shoot you with a lot of love, like a good American
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
American soldiers in battle don't fight for what some president says on T.V., they don't fight for mom, apple pie, the American flag...they fight for one another.
Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist.
An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.
If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.
One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.
An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess.
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.
I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.
Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints.
Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.
