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‘Indian policy’ has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century  (Russell Means Quotes) True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself  (Russell Means Quotes) The United States is a fake country  (Russell Means Quotes) It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain  (Russell Means Quotes) I knew at that young age that going to the Bureau of Indian Affairs was useless, absolutely useless. I grew up having no faith in the bureaucracy of government.  (Russell Means Quotes) All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused, and this cannot go on forever. No theory can alter that simple fact. Mother Earth will retaliate, the whole environment will retaliate, and the abusers will be eliminated.  (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.  (Russell Means Quotes) I say to the Christians and to every missionary on the reservations, you’re welcome to have a church here if you can support yourself. But if these churches can’t support themselves, then take the hint and quit using our poverty for your direct mail solicitations.  (Russell Means Quotes) No one except Hollywood stars and very rich Texans wore Indian jewelry. And there was a plethora of dozens if not hundreds of athletic teams that in essence were insulting us, from grade schools to college. That’s all changed.  (Russell Means Quotes) 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.  (Russell Means Quotes) That’s our charge as ancestors of unborn generations: to once again become free  (Russell Means Quotes) If you learn from an experience, that’s good - so nothing bad happened to you  (Russell Means Quotes) I don’t want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot.  (Russell Means Quotes) Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States - the cultural destruction.  (Russell Means Quotes) Indian policy’ has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.  (Russell Means Quotes) Everyone who’s born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans.  (Russell Means Quotes) Hollywood hasn’t changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world  (Russell Means Quotes) The one thing I’ve always maintained is that I’m an American Indian. I’m not politically correct  (Russell Means Quotes) All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused, and this cannot go on forever. No theory can alter that simple fact. Mother Earth will retaliate, the whole environment will retaliate, and the abusers will be eliminated. Things come full circle, back to where they started. That’s revolution  (Russell Means Quotes) You see the one thing I’ve always maintained is that I’m an American Indian. I’m not a Native American. I’m not politically correct. Everyone who’s born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans. And if you notice, I put American before my ethnicity. I’m not a hyphenated African-American or Irish-American or Jewish-American or Mexican-American  (Russell Means Quotes) 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  (Russell Means Quotes) Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to know what we have done and accomplished in this century other than what Olympic athletes Jim Thorpe and Billy Mills have done  (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  (Russell Means Quotes) 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  (Russell Means Quotes) You can’t talk about the environment, you can’t talk about political correctness, affirmative action and all the other innumerable things that freedom is about, unless you have a free society based upon the integrity of the individual. If you have a responsible society, these other issues will not come up in a responsible society, and that is what freedom is all about  (Russell Means Quotes) The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being  (Russell Means Quotes) I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around  (Russell Means Quotes) Freedom is for everyone, whatever lifestyle they choose, as long as it’s peaceful and honest  (Russell Means Quotes) I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be  (Russell Means Quotes)