Famous quotes containing the words native american, native, american and/or words:
“The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it should always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said “Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with,” and it must be so.”
—Native American elder. Quoted in Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, ch. 8 (written 1771-1790, published 1868)
“O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent,”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)
“Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.”
—Gloria Steinem (20th century)
“It is alive, venomous
it smiles grimly
its words cut—”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)