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Letter "I" » Indian
«Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter'»
Author: Andy Rooney
(Correspondent, Journalist, Producer, Writer)
| About:
Native Americans
| Keywords:
hunter, Indian, lousy, The Hunter, vegetarian, word meaning
«She was mother not only to me but to the whole nation. She served the Indian people to the last drop of her blood.»
Author: Rajiv Gandhi
(Prime Minister)
| About:
Mothers,
Nations
| Keywords:
Indian, served, whole blood
«You have to understand that as long as there are organizations, there will always be a job for chiefs. But if you're going to be a chief you'll be an Indian for a long time.»
«The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| About:
Native Americans
| Keywords:
complaint, Indian, singing
«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
«Stop and consider! life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit; a poor Indian's sleep While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep Of Montmorenci»
«The infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian cane.»
«What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back?»
«The extremes of glory and of shame, Like east and west, become the same No Indian prince has to his palace - More followers than a thief to the gallows»
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