Black Elk Quotes
A good nation I will make live.
Neihardt, John G. Black Elk Speaks. William Morrow & Company, 1932.
This quotation is often cited to show how out of touch the French King was just before the French Revolution. The French King was opening the French National Assembly which contained deputies (delegates) from the clergy, the nobility and the people.
At the time, the United States and Great Britain were trying to create a democratic nation in Iraq and having much difficulty.
Mohamed Anwar El-Sedat. For a nation to be on a war footing diverts a huge proportion of its resources from development and raising the standard of living of the population. Nations like Costa Rica and Tunisia with not only peace but no army to maintain have been able to develop at much greater rates than their neighbors who supported military establishments.
Heȟáka Sápa, commonly known as Black Elk, was a wičháša wakȟáŋ ("medicine man, holy man"), heyoka of the Oglala Lakota people and educator about his culture. He was a second cousin of the war leader Crazy Horse and fought with him in the Battle of Little Bighorn. He survived the Wounded Knee Massacre and traveled in Europe as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. He converted to Catholicism, becoming a catechist and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rapid City opened an official cause for his beatification within the Roman Catholic Church in 2016. His grandson, George Looks Twice said, "He was comfortable praying with this pipe and his rosary, and participated in Mass and Lakota ceremonies on a regular basis".