"We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone."

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Source : "Literature of the American Indian". Book by Thomas Edward Sanders and Walter W. Peek, p. 294, 1973.

Crazy Horse

#Government Quotes #Way Quotes #Left Alone Quotes

“Political experts are saying the reason John Kerry is doing so well is because he's 'electable.' Hey, so was Al Gore - in fact, he even got elected and it didn't help him at all.”
“The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.”
“What's worth doing is worth doing for money.”
“tend to be better at describing feelings and ideas, and worse at painting a picture of any physical thing. I have terrible spatial reasoning skills so even if I were describing my girlfriend, whom I see every day, it sound like I was talking about a child's drawing of her. "Very beautiful. Glasses. Brown hair. Super smart brain. Bigger than our dog. Smaller than me".”
“While everyone has a different experience of what is soulful, these experiences do share similar beginnings. We start by giving ourselves permission to be soulful, to take seriously this aspect of ourselves, our soul and our soul needs.”
“Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.”
“Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.”
“Even though mother's issues are not front page news, they touch us all personally, some more than others, and I believe passionately in the power of grassroots engagement.”

Source : "Back to the Basics" by Joan Blades, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 13, 2006.

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