Native American Treaty Quotes & Sayings

... Up until then he had always wanted to be someone other than he was, but he didn't want to change. — Michael Ende

Like a spring of pure water, God's peace in our hearts brings cleansing and refreshment to our minds and bodies — Billy Graham

Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life. — Thomas Merton

If you meet the Buddha, kill him. — Linji Yixuan

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. — Saint Augustine

While each of us faces enormous challenges every day, it's not the sins we commit that will define us, its how we respond to them. — Sugar Ray Leonard

You are allowed to lie a little, but you must never mislead. — Paul Halmos

My goals are - I don't need much. I'm a simple man. I think that success is having fun. And when I'm having fun doing music, I'm happy. If I can make a little money on the side doing it, I'm really happy. — Bruno Mars

Nector [speaking to Bernadette] could have told her, having drunk down the words of Nanapush, that comfort is not security and money in the hand disappears. He could have told her that only the land matters and never to let go of the papers, the titles, the tracks of the words, all those things that his ancestors never understood how the vital relationship to the dirt and grass under their feet. — Louise Erdrich

The Internet is an actor's best friend. — Armie Hammer

American troops stationed in the Philippines suppressed the native uprising that had followed the treaty. Known as the Philippine Insurrection, that conflict had erupted when the Filipinos learned, after decades of fighting for independence, that they had been betrayed into exchanging the rule of Spain for American occupation. With 35,000 additional troops authorized by Congress, Roosevelt projected that within two years the rebellion would be crushed, a necessary step before the United States could execute its avowedly beneficent intentions. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

Every thing is what it is, and not another thing. — Joseph Butler

Revenge is a luscious fruit which you must leave to ripen. — Emile Gaboriau

Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest. — Margaret Fuller

Antithesis is the narrow gateway through which error most prefers to worm its way towards truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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