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“"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere, because they think of everybody else as native.”

People Thinking Mean Doe Shows Justice White Race Diversity Social Justice Native Mean People White Race

Author:Gertrude Stein

“May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong.”

“I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.”

Love Trying Heart Country Matter States Fall Wonder Tears Limits Unions Our Country Oneness Native Patriotic Bleeding Matters Of The Heart

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.”

Love Mean Country Bears Native Patriotism Nationalism Patriotic Patriotism And Nationalism Native Country

Book:Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc

Source: Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc

“From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these.”

Children Philosophy Facts Literature Interest Lines Simple Attention Teacher Objects Offers Program Connections Educational Abstract Native Immediate Connection

Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at one age, and other kinds of conception at a later age.”

Kind Philosophy Age Certain Order Literature Process Educational Tendencies Native Conception

Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“Do the very best you can.”

Giving Success Fear Giving Up Native Native American Not Giving Up Native American Wisdom Native Wisdom

Book:How to enjoy your life and your job

Source: How to enjoy your life and your job

“Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.”

“There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood- Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.”

Heart Blood My Heart Mood Native Autumn Yellow Rhyme Purple Hints Crimson

Book:Bliss Carman's Poems

Source: Bliss Carman's Poems

“So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still marvel, or shudder, at the fleets of electric carts going off in the morning like the first assault wave at the Battle of El Alamein. It is unlikely, for some time, that a Briton will come across in his native land such a scorecard as Henry Longhurst rescued from a California club and cherished till the day he died. The last on its list of local rules printed the firm warning "A Player on Foot Has No Standing on the Course."”

“But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance.”

Mind Born Tradition Native Customs Honored Breach Observance Horatio Hamlet And Ophelia Hamlet Ophelia Polonius Denmark In Hamlet

Author:William Shakespeare

“We took pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed. . . But we're going back next week.”

Inspiration Funny Girl Next Week Crazy Silly Native Next Week Crackers Animal Crackers

Author:Groucho Marx

“During 1866 and 1922, Native Americans and black soldiers often intermingled in the American west, on the frontier.”

Black Basketball West Soldier Native Native American Frontiers American West

Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try.”

“I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior.”

Nature Forget Environment Four Environmental Superiors Seats Native Native American Eagles Native America Native American Indian Great Native American Native American Earth Delegation Native American Spiritual

Author:Oren Lyons

“To be authentic is literally to be your own author... to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them.”

Way Action Desire Energy Acting Native

Book:The Essential Bennis

Source: The Essential Bennis

“His native home deep imag'd in his soul.”

Soul Home Native

Book:The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope

Source: The Odyssey of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope

“I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.”

Way Land Appreciation Native Usual Native Land Being Irish Ireland And The Irish

Book:The Portable Bernard Shaw

Source: The Portable Bernard Shaw

“The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from. Neither does he know where he is not free; he does not recognize his native autocrats when he sees them.”

Knows Feels Doe Government Opportunity Liberty Rich Expression Native Free Expression

Book:Childhood and Society

Source: Childhood and Society

“It has been recognized that hydrogen bonds restrain protein molecules to their native configurations, and I believe that as the methods of structural chemistry are further applied to physiological problems it will be found that the significance of the hydrogen bond for physiology is greater than that of any other single structural feature.”

Source: The Nature of the Chemical Bond and the Structure of Molecules and Crystals: An Introduction to Modern Structural Chemistry

“And as to the faculties of the mind, setting aside the arts grounded upon words, and especially that skill of proceeding upon generall, and infallible rules, called Science; which very few have, and but in few things; as being not a native faculty, born within us; nor attained, (as Prudence,) while we look after somewhat else.”

Mind Looks Art Science Born Skills Accounts Setting Settings Native Faculty Grounded Prudence Infallible Proceeding Mind Set

Book:Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable in kind and degree. Education, in like manner, engrafts a new man on the native stock, and improves what in his nature was vicious and perverse into qualities of virtue and social worth.”

Knows Men Kind Art Made Science Social Nature Quality Virtue Tree Degrees Fruit Bitter Native Yield Savages Vicious Sour Implants Grafting

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.”

World Whole Born Land Travel Corners Whole World Native Time Travel Great Travel Inspiring Travel Native Land Travel Bug

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the Second Amendment is.”

People Land Protect Gun Slave Native Amendments Native American Gun Control Stolen Revolt Genesis Second Amendment Uprising

Author:Danny Glover

“A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It is only the full emergence of the soul, the full descent of the native light and power of the Spirit and the consequent replacement or transformation and uplifting of our insufficient mental and vital nature by a spiritual and supramental Supernature that can effect this evolutionary miracle.”

Source: The Future Evolution of Man: The Divine Life on Earth

“In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed.”

Hard Term Style Superiors Irony Native Sunset Minorities Loser Ironic Outsiders Oppressed Glances Despised Nuance Sardonic

Book:Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

Source: Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

“No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.”

Might Lost Animal Tomorrow Dignity Cat Ancient Native Rebel Reserves

Author:William E. Conway, Jr.

“The greatest moments of Native History lie ahead of us if a great spiritual renewal and wakening should take place. The Native American has been a sleeping giant. He is awakening. The original Americans could become the evangelists who will help win America for Christ! Remember these forgotten people!”

“The next 10 to 20 years will bring Native cultural expressions to the body of Christ that will be a tremendous blessing to many.”

Years Body Next Christ Expression Blessing Notes Native Body Of Christ

Author:Richard Twiss

“[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the primitive purity, and shortness, when men deliver'd so many things, almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their members, a close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive expressions; clear senses; a native easiness: bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants, before that, of Wits, or Scholars.”

“When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. Now what's the difference?”

Country Stories Running Wanted Differences Doors Fronts Native Bus Marathon Running Marathon Back Doors Cross Country Running Running Training Native Country

Author:Jesse Owens

“I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.”

“...what will be the outcome of this kind of thing? Holton predicts that "at best, the result could be Muslim enclaves in Western communities in which sharia supercedes native law." Or "at worst, sharia could start to creep into our lives and laws, changing our way of life little by little over time." That would be entirely in line with the stealth jihad goal of Islamizing American society.”

Way Kind Littles Would Be Law Goal Community Lines Results Our Lives Worst Islam Western Outcomes Native Creeps American Society Jihad Stealth Sharia

Author:Robert Spencer

“Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun. Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, 'Never! Never!'”

“How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.”

Looks America Language Indian Native Native American Smooth Indigenous American Indian Native American Wisdom Native America Native American Indian Great Native American Native American Earth Indian Wisdom Native Wisdom Native American Indian Inspirational Native Language

Book:Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk: With an account of the late war

Source: Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk: With an account of the late war

“If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing between the natural way of my forefathers and that of the... present way of civilization, I would, for its welfare, unhesitatingly set that child's feet in the path of my forefathers. I would raise him to be an Indian!”

“Traditional people of Indian nations have interpreted the two roads that face the light-skinned race as the road to technology and the road to spirituality. We feel that the road to technology.... has led modern society to a damaged and seared earth. Could it be that the road to technology represents a rush to destruction, and that the road to spirituality represents the slower path that the traditional native people have traveled and are now seeking again? The earth is not scorched on this trail. The grass is still growing there.”

“If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The Earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself, and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.”

“This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things... This war has come from robbery - from the stealing of our land.”

“Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.”

World Should Faces Wish Grass Native Grandfather Native American Native American Wisdom Native America Native American Indian Indian Wisdom Native Wisdom Native American Indian Inspirational Native American Spiritual Spiritual Indian

Book:Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

Source: Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

“We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now... but it will grow again... like the trees.”

“The song that I will sing is an old song, so old that none knows who made it. It has been handed down through generations and was taught to me when I was but a little lad. It is now my own song. It belongs to me. This is a holy song (medicine-song), and great is its power. The song tells how, as I sing, I go through the air to a holy place where Yusun (The Supreme Being) will give me power to do wonderful things. I am surrounded by little clouds, and as I go through the air I change, becoming spirit only.”

“We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow!”

Ifs Fighting Indian Native Native American American Indian Great American Native America Native American Indian Great Native American Native American Earth Indian Wisdom

Author:Chief Joseph

“The idea of full dress in preparation for a battle comes not from a belief that it will add to the fighting ability. The preparation is for death, in case that should be the result of the conflict. Every Indian wants to look his best when he goes to meet the Great Spirit, so the dressing up is done whether in imminent danger is an oncoming battle or a sickness or injury at times of peace.”

“Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We shall all be alike-brothers of one father and one another, with one sky above us and one country around us, and one government for all.”

Men War Country Government Father White Sky Brother Treats Indian Native Native American White Man Native America Native American Indian Great Native American Native American Earth Native Country

Author:Chief Joseph

“My son, you are now flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone. By the ceremony performed this day, every drop of white blood was washed from your veins; you were taken into the Shawnee Nation.”

Nations White Taken Blood Son Bones Flesh Native My Son This Day Native American Veins Ceremony

Author:Chief Blackfish

“I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior, but we are after all a mere part of the Creation. And we must continue to understand where we are. And we stand between the mountain and the ant, somewhere and there only, as part of the Creation.”

“Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.”

“A wee child toddling in a wonder world, I prefer to their dogma my excursions into the natural gardens where the voice of the Great Spirit is heard in the twittering of birds, the rippling of mighty waters, and the sweet breathing of flowers. If this is Paganism, then at present, at least, I am a Pagan.”

“Although wrongs have been done to me, I live in hopes. I have not got two hearts....Now we are together again to make peace. My shame is as big as the earth, although I will do what my friends have advised me to do. I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out our lodges, horses and everything else, it is hard for me to believe the white men any more.”

Men Believe Heart Has Beens Two Hard Done Bigs Earth Together White My Friends Horse Shame Native Native American White Man Making Peace Together Again Lodges Two Hearts

Author:Black Kettle

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