Russell Means Quotes
If you learn from an experience, that's good - so nothing bad happened to you.
Means, Russell, and Marvin J. Wolf. Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means. St. Martin's Press, 1995, p. 142.
Politicians, bureaucrats, and appointees all will make mistakes unless they do nothing. Learning from those mistakes is an opportunity to avoid the same or similar errors in the future as well as to become wiser in general. However, many politicians are reluctant to admit that they made an error. In a polarized political atmosphere, political opponents will castigate politicians who admit to a , administrative, policy or judgment error. None the less, the greatest of the politicians learned from past errors and bcame great, in part as a result of their learning from mistakes.
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Russell Charles Means was an Oglala Lakota activist for the rights of Native Americans, libertarian political activist, actor, writer and musician, who became a prominent member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) after joining the organization in 1968 and helped organize notable events that attracted national and international media coverage.
