Luther Standing Bear Quotes

#1. Being Muslim has become synonymous with pointed questions, with tension and mistrust, even with conflict. It has become a global phenomenon with profound consequences for inter-communal relations, political rhetoric and policies at the local, regional, national and international level.

Tariq Ramadan

#2. White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.

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#3. The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

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#4. Training began with children who were taught to sit still and enjoy it. They were taught to use their organs of smell, to look where there was apparently nothing to see, and to listen intently when all seemingly was quiet. A child who cannot sit still is a half-developed child.

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#5. Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.

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#6. The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject.

Ben Edwards

#7. Certain small ways and observances sometimes have connection with large and more profound ideas.

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#8. For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.

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#9. Can love help a person to get better?' I asked.

David Almond

#10. It is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny.

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#11. There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

Alexandre Dumas

#12. Children will watch anything, and when a broadcaster uses crime and violence and other shoddy devices to monopolize a child's attention, it's worse than taking candy from a baby. It is taking precious time from the process of growing up.

Newton N. Minow

#13. After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery.

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#14. "Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice, to my reverence for the rights of life, to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity, or to my faith in Wakan Tanka, God of the Lakotas.

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#15. Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land of their birth, while they are furnished with little material on the people and institutions that are truly American.

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#16. Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

Charlotte Bronte

#17. Generosity is a mark of bravery, so all Sioux boys were taught to be generous.

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#18. The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.

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#19. War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.

Alan Alda

#20. Today, I will let things happen without worrying about the significance of each event. I will trust that this will bring about my growth faster than running around with a microscope. I will trust my lessons to reveal themselves in their own time.

Melody Beattie

#21. You can manage your sin, but that's not repentance.

Henry R Brandt

#22. Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.

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#23. He was a good enough sort of cretur, and hadn't no harm in him, and was just a genius, as the papers said, which wasn't his fault.

Mark Twain