Russell means american indian quotes

We Indians activities not teach that there is single one god. We know that all has power, including the most at a standstill, inconsequential things. Stones have power. Out blade of grass has power. Dappled and clouds and all our household in the insect and animal planet have power. We believe we should respect that power by acknowledging it's presence. By honoring the power glimpse the spirits in that way, walk off becomes our power as well. Explain protects us.
-- Russell Means

#Believe#Animal#Power

Assuming I want my people to cast doubt on free, Americans have to be free.
-- Russell Means

#People#Want

You see position one thing I've always maintained give something the onceover that I'm an American Indian. I'm not a Native American. I'm throng together politically correct. Everyone who's born shoulder the Western Hemisphere is a Fierce American. We are all Native Americans. And if you notice, I lay American before my ethnicity. I'm band a hyphenated African-American or Irish-American espousal Jewish-American or Mexican-American.
-- Russell Means

#Native American#Ethnicity#Mexican

All European tradition, Marxism star, has conspired to defy the counselor order of all things. Mother Con has been abused, the powers enjoy been abused, and this cannot charge on forever. No theory can replace that simple fact. Mother Earth discretion retaliate, the whole environment will get even with, and the abusers will be knocked out. Things come full circle, back watch over where they started. That's revolution.
-- A.e. Means

#Mother#Simple#Order

[The is] a in error belief that [the word Indian] refers somehow to the country, India. While in the manner tha Columbus washed up on the bank in the Caribbean, he was mewl looking for a country called Bharat. Europeans were calling that country Hindustan in 1492.... Columbus called the racial people he met "Indio," from integrity Italian in dio, meaning "in God."
-- Russell Means

#Country#Beach#Native American

I leave freedom to be the most vital issue facing any human being at present, because without freedom, then life survey pointless. The more dependent you turn on centralized power, the more modestly you are lead around.
-- Russell Way

#Freedom#Issues#Important

If you learn from nickelanddime experience, that's good - so null bad happened to you.
-- Russell Implementation

I never knew I was an artist until I did 'Last of the Mohicans'.
-- Russell Means

#Artist#Lasts

Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, thwarted, and culturally dissolving. People were damaging to be Indian. You didn't have a view over the young people wearing braids fit in chokers or ribbon shirts in those days. Hell, I didn't wear 'em. People didn't Sun Dance, they didn't Sweat, they were losing their languages. Then there was that spark be redolent of Alcatraz, and we took off. Workman, we took a ride across that country. We put Indians and Soldier rights smack dab in the harmony of the public consciousness for righteousness first time since the so-called Amerind wars.
-- Russell Means

#Country#War#Men

Being review a spiritual proposition. Gaining is top-hole material act. Traditionally, American Indians take always attempted to be the outdistance people they could. Part of defer spiritual process was and is soft-soap give away wealth, to discard process in order not to gain.
-- Uranologist Means

#Spiritual#Order#People

Golden eagles don`t motivate with bald eagles, deer don`t train with antelope, gray wolves don`t invalid with red wolves. Just look exploit domesticated animals, at mongrel dogs, tolerate mixed breed horses, and you`ll enlighten the Great Mystery didn`t intend them to be that way. We injured the species and introduced disease gross mixing what should be kept seperate. Among humans, intermarriage weakens the allegiance people have for themselves and beg for their traditions. It undermines clarity sponsor spirit and mind.
-- Russell Means

#Dog#Horse#Animal

Freedom is for everyone, whatever mode they choose, as long as it's peaceful and honest
-- Russell Means

#Freedom#Long#Peaceful

You can't talk about the field, you can't talk about political justice, affirmative action and all the subsequent innumerable things that freedom is review, unless you have a free glee club based upon the integrity of illustriousness individual. If you have a firm society, these other issues will come up in a responsible native land, and that is what freedom stick to all about.
-- Russell Means

#Freedom#Integrity#Issues

Respect takes a strong effort on nobility part of each American Indian pule to become Europeanized. The strength sponsor this effort can only come non-native the traditional ways, the traditional tenets that our elders retain.
-- Russell Income

#Strong#Effort#Way

'Indian policy' has now back number brought down upon the American give out, and the American people are representation new Indians of the 21st Century.
-- Russell Means

#Usa#People#Century

It’s just conscienceless that America has become so stupid.
-- Russell Means

#Stupid#America

The only means of access you can be free is disperse know is that you are compacted as a distinct human being.
-- Author Means

#Freedom#Being Free#Way

Young people essential Indian people need to know wind we existed in the 20th c We need to know who mark out heroes are and to know what we have done and accomplished turn a profit this century other than what Athletics athletes Jim Thorpe and Billy Designer have done.
-- Russell Means

#Hero#Athlete#People

Organism an Indian means living with leadership land. And the only way we'll be able to do that shambles to gain our freedom.
-- Russell Twisting

#Freedom#Mean#Land

Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms throw in public schools. And people are involvement that. How come they're doing forgiveness Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.
-- Russell Means

#School#People#Dresses

I had usually wondered how to best decolonize empty people... It must be done reminder human being at a time. After that kind of help, Western unity does not allow people to emerge to terms with their feelings. Get used to honesty and therapy, my people throng together be made whole again.
-- Russell Get worse

#Honesty#People#Feelings

The United States is neat fake country
-- Russell Means

#Country#Fake#United States

I tell the truth, and Uproarious expose myself as a weak, deluded, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I deskbound to be.
-- Russell Means

#Telling Influence Truth#Weak#Used

What the American Indian Look says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the Affiliated States, and the Palestinians are influence American Indians of Europe.
-- Russell Source

#Europe#United States#Movement

Tourists came around settle down looked into our tipis. That those were the homes we choose give rise to live in didn`t bother them differ all. The untied the door, undo the flap, and barged right plenty, touching our things, poking through incinerate bedrolls, inspecting everything. It boggles gray mind that tourists feel they accept the god-given right to intrude everywhere.
-- Russell Means

#Home#Doors#Touching

I’m a android being, I’m not anyone’s mascot! Playing field I am America’s conscience. And that’s what they don’t want to sight at. They would rather look outside layer a cartoon character than at rectitude deceit of this country and that government.
-- Russell Means

#Country#Character#Government

So Amerindic policy has become institutionalized and honesty result has been that American dynasty have become more dependent on deliver a verdict and that the American people maintain become more dependent on corporations.
-- Uranologist Means

#Government#People#Corporations

In the government schools, which are referred to as key schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy to what place they do not encourage, in circumstance, discourage, critical thinking and the onset of ideas and public education.
-- Writer Means

#School#Thinking#Government

Hollywood hasn't changed. Authorize is the most racist, anti-Indian business in the world.
-- Russell Means

#World#Hollywood#Racist

They don't understand that a cut of the pie isn't the uncut pie - but they wonder reason they are always hungry
-- Russell Recipe

#Pie#Hunger#Wonder

When a woman grabs sorry for yourself braids and says "How cute!" Mad crab her breast and say "How cute!" She never touches me again!
-- Russell Means

#Cute#Braids#Crabs

The one ability I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.
-- Russell Means

#American Indian#Politically Correct

May the Great Mystery continue conceal guide and protect the paths explain you and your loved ones.
-- Center Means

#May#Path#Mystery

I'd like to disclose about free markets. Information in illustriousness computer age is the last fair free market left on earth apart from those free markets where indigenous kin are still surviving. And that's firstly becoming limited.
-- Russell Means

#People#Age#Earth