In them days, it was just still not illegal to kill an Indian. If you killed an Indian, you'd be very unfortunate if you got probation - most of them were released immediately.

We need to do more than just what is right. We need to join together and right what is wrong.

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

You can't believe one thing and do another. What you believe and what you do are the same thing.

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.

Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.

What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people and wants to go home.

My continued incarceration has served some good purposes. My defense committee has served as a training ground for other organizers in their defense of freedom and justice.

I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks.

With what sovereignty we have retained, we choose to decide for ourselves our needs in accordance with our values, exerting our rights of empowerment under those articles of the treaties.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

..."Dont marry an orange and expect him to turn into an apple." If you want an orange, great. If not, put him back in the proverbial fruit bowl for someone else to enjoy and move on.

What is the matter with you?""You want an alphabetical list?

It doesn't matter where I am - China will stay in me. I don't know how far I can still walk on this road and what is the limit.

However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.

You really don't have a life when you're working. I always think "oh, I'm gonna see everybody on my days off. I'm gonna read so many books and see so many films" and then three months go by.

God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better.

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.