Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Burr

Think about the amount of crap the US has done! Between slavery and the genocide of the Native Americans - if any of that had been filmed like [Adolf] Hitler, we'd never live it down.

R. Robinson

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

Cynthia Ozick

Paradise is only for those who have already been there.

Conan O'Brien

The Justice Department ruled that Native American tribes are allowed to grow and sell marijuana on reservations. This decision was hailed as a victory by Native American leader Giggling Eagle.

David Gemmell

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

D. H. Lawrence

Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.

Danny Glover

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.

Andrew Jackson

That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizensis certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition.

Christopher Moore

I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't find anything. So it's a wide-open field.

Jack Balkin

Rights are most secure when they are supported by legislative enactment,

Babatunde Osotimehin

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

B. R. Ambedkar

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Bill Delahunt

If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values out for basing rights, particularly when (Defense) Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld himself noted that there were options to the base in Uzbekistan

Bianca Jagger

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

Bianca Jagger

I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

Bianca Jagger

There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the history of mankind. ... We need to defend our principles and values, human rights, civil liberties and the rule of international law. If we don't our world will further descend into a state of chaos.

Bertha von Suttner

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

Carl Sagan

The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.

Mickey Levy

Regardless of who is president, it looks like they will not have a mandate.

David Buckner

Some of New Orleans looks beautiful--and the other half--there's a lot of work ahead. If theres a time estimate, I'd say probably about 2 to 5 years before everything is back to normal,

E. Hicks

Overall it was a pretty bearish report. It looks like the refineries are starting to come back.

E. Hicks

Overall it was a pretty bearish report, ... It looks like the refineries are starting to come back.

Danny Sullivan

Overall it looks interesting but I don't know if they have anything that the other people couldn't match if they are lacking,

Michael Wuertz

Right now, the catcher's glove looks about as small as it's going to get. I don't think it can get any smaller.

Jack Lengyel

Red, he looks just like you. He stands like you.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I couldn't look at you and breath at the same time.

Barry Manilow

I was always into the music. Music, in general, saved my life. But the fame part... I would look up, see what was going on around me, the reporters and photographers and all, and then I would just go back to making my music.