Top 30 Russell Means Quotes
#1. Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.
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#2. I'd like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that's basically becoming limited.
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#3. When a woman grabs my braids and says "How cute!" I crab her breast and say "How cute!" She never touches me again!
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#4. The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.
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#5. May the Great Mystery continue to guide and protect the paths of you and your loved ones.
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#7. If you learn from an experience, that's good - so nothing bad happened to you.
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#8. It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.
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#9. If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free.
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#10. It's just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.
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#11. Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.
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#12. I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.
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#13. Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.
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#14. I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated.
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#15. I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around.
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#16. Freedom is for everyone, whatever lifestyle they choose, as long as it's peaceful and honest
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#17. No one except Hollywood stars and very rich Texans wore Indian jewelry. And there was a plethora of dozens if not hundreds of athletic teams that in essence were insulting us, from grade schools to college. That's all changed.
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#18. So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.
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#19. Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to know what we have done and accomplished in this century other than what Olympic athletes Jim Thorpe and Billy Mills have done.
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#20. The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.
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#21. I've always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you're still alive.
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#22. What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe.
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#23. 'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.
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#24. I had often wondered how to best decolonize my people ... It must be done one human being at a time. Without that kind of help, Western society does not allow people to come to terms with their feelings. With honesty and therapy, my people can be made whole again.
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#25. I'm a human being, I'm not anyone's mascot! And I am America's conscience. And that's what they don't want to look at. They would rather look at a cartoon character than at the deceit of this country and this government.
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#26. Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain.
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#27. Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.
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#28. In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.
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#29. I never knew I was an artist until I did 'Last of the Mohicans'.
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#30. They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry
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