Top 21 Dee Brown Quotes
#1. Whatever comes easily to us we turn away from, but that which slips away from us we will pursue to the ends of the earth.
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#2. Participants in the massacre were later tried in Tucson and acquitted. To murder an Indian was considered no crime.
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#3. Words are what give us power, that without words we are nothing, we do not exist.
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#4. The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to.
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#5. Another Chief remembered that since the Great Father promised them that they would never be moved they had been moved five times. "I think you had better put the Indians on wheels," he said sardonically, "and you can run them about whenever you wish.
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#6. The librarians know the secrets, not the historians
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#7. Quanah Parker. As the years went by he became a shrewd businessman, built a large house, and successfully managed his farm and ranch. He traveled all over the country, and went to Washington to ride in President Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural parade.
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#8. I call it magic, the crossing of our paths with the paths of others, how quickly, how completely, these magic meetings can turn us into directions we never dreamed of.
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#9. I heard him call to the people not to be afraid, that the soldiers would not hurt them; then the troops opened fire from two sides of the camp.
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#10. Indians!" Sitting Bull shouted. "There are no Indians left but me!
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#11. Nothing lives long
Only the earth and mountains
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#12. The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.
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#13. To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.
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#14. They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.
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#15. To survive, the weak must feed on the hearts of the strong.
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#16. I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.
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#17. A short time later, near Gallina Springs, Graydon's scouting party came upon the Mescaleros again. What happened there is not clear, because no Mescalero survived the incident.
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#18. You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted.
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#19. I now think a little powder and lead is the best food for them, he concluded. 7
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#20. The Aravaipa village near Camp Grant. Although Camp
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#21. The Navahos could forgive the Rope Thrower for fighting them as a soldier, for making prisoners of them, even for destroying their food supplies, but the one act they never forgave him for was cutting down their beloved peach trees.
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