“ I know the tribal issues. I was a congressman where most of the Indians are in this state. The problem is that most of them aren't Indians. The average Cherokee quantum is 1/512. ”
- Tom Coburn- Copy
- 285
“ If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian had to be better than. ”
- Janet Campbell Hale- Copy
- 334
“ When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours. ”
- Vine Deloria Jr.- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian.". ”
- Theodore Roosevelt- Copy
- 555
“ There were no Indian actors from England of note earning money or having a career. ”
- Naveen Andrews- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. ”
- Henry Adams- Copy
- 1.9K
“ If one's in the doghouse with the Chief, he gets the crud. He gets the tax cases and some of the Indian cases, which I like, but I've had a lot of them. ”
- Harry A. Blackmun- Copy
- 3.5K
“ You have to understand that as long as there are organizations, there will always be a job for chiefs. But if you're going to be a chief you'll be an Indian for a long time. ”
- William W. Duffy- Copy
- 664
“ I have had to make a cross of two logs, and lie down on it, to show the Indians what it means to crucify a man. ”
- Jim Elliot- Copy
- 2.8K
“ While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself. ”
- Roland Gift- Copy
- 2.2K
“ You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out. ”
- Martha Graham- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I have a curious and apprehensive feeling as I watch JFK that he is sort of an Indian snake charmer. ”
- Dean Acheson- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus. ”
- Peter Ustinov- Copy
- 726
“ It was his decision, not the Indians' decision. I think he made the right decision. ”
- Bob Wickman- Copy
- 2K
“ Follow the Romany Patteran Sheer to the Austral light, Where the bosom of God is the wild west wind, Sweeping the sea floors white. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
- 2.2K
“ You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians. ”
- David Lee Roth- Copy
- 303
“ If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. ”
- Chief Joseph- Copy
- 3.2K
“ It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager. ”
- Frank Robinson- Copy
- 154
“ The doctor listens in with a stethoscope and hears sounds of a warpath Indian drum. ”
- John McPhee- Copy
- 3.6K
“ I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit. ”
- John Hurt- Copy
- 3.3K
“ In America the government took the land from the Indians and then established laws protecting private property. ”
- Alvin Poussaint- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians… To me, that's sexy! ”
- Kevin Costner- Copy
- 3.2K
“ For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred. ”
- Paula Gunn Allen- Copy
- 2.9K
“ As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. ”
- E. J. Hobsbawm- Copy
- 3.4K
“ America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting. ”
- William S. Burroughs- Copy
- 318
“ I have Indian Blood in me. I have just enough white blood for you to question my honesty. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
- 2.5K
“ In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves. ”
- John Wayne- Copy
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