Neil Young Quotes

My heart is so heavy when I see the reality of the Indian reservation and as an American, I know I am, too, responsible.

In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.

In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures.

Law enforcement's biased view of the Irish lives on in the nickname we still use for the vehicles we use to transport groups of prisoners. It is, after all, the 'paddy wagon.' The Irish had tough times, but little compares to the experience on our soil of black Americans.

This land was our land; it was taken from us illegally …. John Smith did not bring a civilization here. There was already civilization here…. We should have burned the boat and killed them. all.

Millions of dollars have been expended to excavate and transport to museums the tools, weapons, and other artifacts of Indians--but scarcely a penny has been spent to save the living descendants of those who made them

An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong.

If you asked someone who was a Maori about how they felt about how they were treated in Australia or New Zealand, you'll get an answer. They'll have something to tell you. And you might not like what you hear.

Black people are experiencing a systemic disadvantage, and it goes back to slavery, which was not that long ago.

Native American activists have been present as long as the Europeans have been working to colonize us.

Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States - the cultural destruction.

If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.

The American Indian, once proud and free, is torn now between White and tribal values; between the politics and language of the White man and his own historic culture. His problems, sharpened by years of defeat and exploitation, neglect and inadequate effort, will take many years to overcome.

Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the end of this century. We are not myths of the past, ruins in thejungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims ofintolerance and racism.

We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history of how America was created. With this film, it's nice to see that the trauma is presented from a white male that was in the Civil War and that trauma affects him in a way that still exists.

We also recommit to supporting tribal self-determination, security, and prosperity for all Native Americans. While we cannot erase the scourges or broken promises of our past, we will move ahead together in writing a new, brighter chapter in our joint history.

The thesis of the book in your hands is that Native American history merits more than 9 pages.

What kind of country are we that our history is so tragic?

You cannot turn the clock back, you cannot give the island of Manhattan back to the indigenous, but on the other hand, you can ensure that the indigenous can maintain their way of life.

Most Canadians previously had no idea what went on in the residential schools. You tell Canadians the last one closed in 1996, they are appalled. So now that Canadians are aware of residential schools, you'd think there would be a huge impetus for progress. It hasn't, and that's amazing.

Slavery didn't end in 1865; it just evolved.

Slavery, our country's original sin, sat on a foundation codified by laws enforced by police, by slave-catchers.

I am a living symbol of the white man's fear. I never realized how deeply embedded this fear is until I came to Brandfort.

I realised how much the system did not want to change.

Indigenous peoples was messed over. It was like a tradition here. We broke every treaty with them that ever was written. I think Andrew Jackson wanted to wipe them out.