Quotes About Wounded Knee

#1. Bury my heart

at wounded knee

or sprained ankle

even torn ligament,

but please don't

bury it alone.

Pamela August Russell

#2. I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse.
I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea.
You may bury my body in Sussex grass,
You may bury my tongue at Champmedy.
I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass.
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee

Stephen Vincent Benet

#3. 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

#4. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#5. Home in Missoula,
Home in Truckee,
Home in Opelousas,
Ain't no home for me.
Home in old Medora,
Home in Wounded Knee,
Home in Ogallala,
Home I'll never be

Jack Kerouac

#6. We all had to learn Southern accents. It wasn't a big research show. With the 'Wounded Knee' project, I locked myself in my apartment with history books so I would know what we're talking about.

Anna Paquin

#7. Life is difficult and painful, but if you keep moving forward the final destination makes all of the pain worth it.

Seth Adam Smith

#8. It isn't only art that is incompatible with happiness, it's also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.

Aldous Huxley

#9. The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.

Bob Geldof

#10. Halloween this year falls on a Friday. That should be helpful for retailers because the party carries into the weekend.

Richard Hastings

#11. Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being.

Zoltan Istvan

#12. It is only those who know how to feel that "this is not good" who devise improvements.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. If someone broke your heart it doesn't mean you should build a wall around it and quit loving. Redirect your love.

Rick Warren

#14. Our sacred beliefs have been made pencils / names of cities / gas stations / My knee is wounded so badly that I limp constantly / Anger is my crutch / I hold myself upright with it / My knee is wounded / see / How I Am Still Walking.

Chrystos

#15. I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder.

Jonathan Franzen

#16. I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.

Bruce Conner