Rush Limbaugh Quotes

Columbus did not discover a new world; he established contact between two worlds, both already old.

As the grandson of Italian immigrants, maybe I am biased, but I think Christopher Columbus, the man who is rightfully credited with bringing European civilization to the Western Hemisphere, deserves the national holiday enacted by Congress in 1934.

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.

In 1492, the natives discovered they were Indians; they discovered they lived in America.

Civilization or death to all American savages!

The tribes which occupied the countries now constituting the Eastern States were annihilated or have melted away to make room for the whites.

No one who knew the true nature of the Indian felt any regret that they were driven off their hunting grounds. This attitude was found wherever the Whites came in conflict with them and explains why they were scarcely regarded as human beings.

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.

At a time when Europeans already had a long history of violent contact with Native people, Lewis and Clark made most of their journey in peace.

The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing only - gold.

The whole Indian thing, I always say it's really the American holocaust. It's something we need to look at.

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

I have four relatively small children, and around fourth grade, they start doing big projects on Native Americas: everything is Native Americans in elementary school. Do you know how many Native American dresses I've sewn, on and on; it's a full yearlong study. And then never again. As journalists, we never even cover Native Americans.

Our relations with the Indians have been governed chiefly by treaties and trade, or war and subjugation.

When you start to look at Native American history, you realize that, very far from being a peaceful, morally superior people, Native Americans were not that different from Europeans.

Every book in the 'Dreams' cycle dramatizes a particular epoch in the ongoing cultural collision between North America's native peoples and its European colonizers.

For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain.

'Avatar' imaginatively revisits the crime scene of white America's foundational act of genocide, in which entire native tribes and civilizations were wiped out by European immigrants to the American continent.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella.

Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are literally millions of human beings whose lives have been snuffed out by people who conquered under the banner of a white god.

I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.

I will say that I like an Indian better dead than living. I have never in my life seen a good Indian (and I have seen thousands) except when I have seen a dead Indian.

Who came to this country first—the white man, didn’t he? That’s who made this country great.