Quotes About Native American Rights

#1. So much for land ownership, Henry thinks; it's a modern myth. You can buy and sell rights to use the land; you can't actually own it. He tries to remember who said, the land doesn't belong to you, you belong to the land; the author was certainly Native American, but he can't pin down the source.

J.J. Brown

#2. The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need, more are being developed ... But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait.

Al Gore

#3. There is nothing you need to do first in order to be enlightened.

Thaddeus Golas

#4. I write about the things I feel strongly about.

Dido Armstrong

#5. - How is he in bed? Gladiator or poet? - Hmmm ... A poetic gladiator.

Nora Roberts

#6. What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse

John Hampden

#7. Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.

Roger L'Estrange

#8. Man
is a bird full of mud,
I say aloud.
And death looks on with a casual eye
and scratches his anus.

Anne Sexton

#9. The [Apache] tribe was under siege by government agents, who had jailed some of the medicine men for practicing their rituals. Freedom of religion was cherished as a sacrosanct American right -- everywhere, that is, but on the archipelago of Indian life.

Timothy Egan

#10. Blessing is the lifeblood throbbing through the universe.

David Steindl-Rast

#11. Hermione looked far and far and George was a midge and a leaf was the size of a house and an acorn-cup would shelter herself ... for ... I am a tree planted by the river of water ... I am in the word tree. I am tree exactly.

H.D.

#12. There are moments in life. And, yes, still moments in death.

Matthew Culberson

#13. The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.

Lucas Grabeel

#14. Eggs Benedict is genius. It's eggs covered in eggs. I mean, come on,
that person should be the president.

Wylie Dufresne

#15. United States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a people, which under the law as written we deserve, and which should be protected.

Leonard Peltier

#16. Yes," Mom said. "People may want to kill themselves. But no one wants to be depressed, or in pain, or lonely, or hurt.

Will Schwalbe

#17. According to court records, during the siege at Wounded Knee, more than two hundred and fifty thousand rounds were fired at our people by U.S. marshalls, FBI agents, the tribal police, the GOONs, and white vigilantes. These boys weren't kidding. And neither were we.

Leonard Peltier

#18. Think of the undying glory that hangs around the ancient name of Africa and forget not that you are native-born American citizens, and as such, you are justly entitled to all the rights that are granted to the freest.

Henry Highland Garnet

#19. Some of us wear our hearts. Some of us carry them.

Stephanie Perkins

#20. If you look at the statistics regarding Native Americans, you will see that most of the tribes since the 70s have improved their economic situation in some form. And this has been brought about by their aggressive assertion of their sovereign treaty rights.

Leonard Peltier

#21. The movie industry would never purposely offend homosexuals, native Americans, environmentalists, animal rights activists, or women's groups, but they don't think twice about something that might offend Christians.

Tim LaHaye

#22. fun isn't the experience of pleasure, but the outcome of tinkering with a small part of the world in a surprising way. Think

Ian Bogost

#23. I continue to be surprised by judgmental native stereotypes and apathy, but if I wasn't that would mean I'd become accustomed and tolerant. I don't want to stop being surprised. I just want them to stop.

Red Haircrow