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This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.


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Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.



The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.

The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.



Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He got half-way through.

Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He got half-way through.



When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.



To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.

To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.



These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating

These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating



If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign.

If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign.



Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?

Do certain sets of circumstances lie ahead of us wherein we change the world radically by the choices we make?



For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.

For some unknown reason, this [antiabortion] branch of Christianity cherishes the unborn and hates the living person.



Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.





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In that kind of environment, where there's so much skepticism about information that's coming in, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time thinking about how do we protect our democratic process.

In that kind of environment, where there's so much skepticism about information that's coming in, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time thinking about how do we protect our democratic process.



Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.

Nothing can be more true, than that the greatest Boasters have the least of what they pretend to.



I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.



Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.

Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.



I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.

I'm a person that thinks time is very precious and our only commodity... It's so upsetting when I feel like something has wasted my time.



If not for reverence, if not for wonder, if not for love, why have we come here?

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