List of Russell Means Quotes

Let Me Go To Clinton's New Proposal: To Have Uniforms In Public Schools. And People Are Doing That. How Come They're Doing That? Dress Codes! I Find That Abhorrent.

I've Always Considered Myself A Man Of Integrity As A Leader Of The American Indian Movement And Of Indian People. I Will Stand That Test Against Anyone At Anytime, Anywhere.

Tourists Came Around And Looked Into Our Tipis. That Those Were The Homes We Choose To Live In Didn`t Bother Them At All. The Untied The Door, Opened The Flap, And Barged Right In, Touching Our Things, Poking Through Our Bedrolls, Inspecting Everything. It Boggles My Mind That Tourists Feel They Have The God-given Right To Intrude Everywhere.

Indian People Are Relics; We Do Not Exist In The Present.

Children In Poverty Aren't Trying To Get Out Of Poverty; They're Just Trying To Rip Off A Pair Of Nikes. So We Indian People Are A Microcosm Of What's Happening In America. We Are Now Consumers, And Our Culture Has Gone.

I Had Often Wondered How To Best Decolonize My People... It Must Be Done One Human Being At A Time. Without That Kind Of Help, Western Society Does Not Allow People To Come To Terms With Their Feelings. With Honesty And Therapy, My People Can Be Made Whole Again.

I Tell The Truth, And I Expose Myself As A Weak, Misguided, Misdirected, Dysfunctional Human Being I Used To Be.

Even Though The American Indian Movement On A National-international Scale Has Proven To Be Extremely Dysfunctional, The American Indian Movement I Was Associated With I'm Very Proud Of. We Were A Revolutionary, Militant Organization Whose Purpose Was Spirituality First, And That's How I Want To Be Remembered.

Colonialism Has Completed The Destruction Of The American Indian In The United States - The Cultural Destruction.

I Never Knew I Was An Artist Until I Did 'last Of The Mohicans'.

Being Is A Spiritual Proposition. Gaining Is A Material Act. Traditionally, American Indians Have Always Attempted To Be The Best People They Could. Part Of That Spiritual Process Was And Is To Give Away Wealth, To Discard Wealth In Order Not To Gain.

I'd Like To Talk About Free Markets. Information In The Computer Age Is The Last Genuine Free Market Left On Earth Except Those Free Markets Where Indigenous People Are Still Surviving. And That's Basically Becoming Limited.