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Letter "A" » American Indian
«All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian»
Author: Pat Paulsen
(Comedian, Politician, Statesman)
| Keywords:
American Indian, immigration, Indian, in the United States, traced, unenlightened
«An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization is mentioned: little or nothing.»
Author: Paula Gunn Allen
(Writer)
| Keywords:
American civilization, American Indian, Indian, mentioned, occurs, odd
«The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.»
«The 10 Frenchmen journeyed to America despite warnings from their mothers that they would be mugged within 5 minutes of their arrival in New York and mowed down by gangsters in Chicago -- provided, of course, that they were not scalped by Indians along the way [or captured by] crowds of American women waiting at the airport to get their hands on a Frenchman.»
«REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
American Indian, aversion, constitutional, North American, North American Indian, offend, repartee, retort, retorted
«RED-SKIN, n. A North American Indian, whose skin is not red --at least not on the outside.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
American Indian, Indian, North, North American, North American Indian
«The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
American Indian, bribery, crushed, doomed, hack, hacking, hacks, Indian, Negro, seduce, starve, submission, The Mexican, white man
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