Veda Boyd Jones > Quotes

“Do you see yon woods? Do you see yon trees? W shall cut them down and build new houses and live as our fathers did. We will dance when our laws command us to dance, we will feast when our hearts command us to feast. Do we ask the white man "Do as the Indian does"? No, we do not. Why then do you ask us "Do as the white man does"? It is a strict law that bids us dance. It is a strict law that bids us distribute our property among our friends and neighbors. It is a good law. Let the white man observe his law, we shall observe ours. And now if you are come to forbid us, begone, if not, you will be welcome to us.

- Kwakiutl chief”
― Veda Boyd Jones

“Wisdom is gained by time, but knowledge can come early.”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Struggle: Social Change, Native Americans, and Civil War

“(Book”
― Veda Boyd Jones, Summer Breezes

“other”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Struggle: Social Change, Native Americans, and Civil War

“Governor Olson has stopped all foreclosures in Minnesota.”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Progress: Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression

“To the memory of those who can no longer walk among us because they are walking in heaven. To those we have loved and lost, so that they may remain close to our hearts and minds, we dedicate this park, Memorial Park.”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Progress: Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression

“Popsicles, Popsicles—my best pick,
Flavored ice stuck on a stick. It cools me off in the summer heat;
The yummy flavor is nice and sweet. Oh, the joy of a Popsicle’s hard to beat.

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― Veda Boyd Jones, American Progress: Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression

“I smacked a homer that would have made Babe Ruth smile.”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Progress: Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression

“Could a woman be assertive, adventurous, and all she wanted to be—-and still be a lady?”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Progress: Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression

“He’d also signed a bill making the sale and drinking of beer legal again.”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Progress: Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression

“let me assert my belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Progress: Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression

“Franklin D. Roosevelt.”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Progress: Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression

“Of course he took his camera.”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Progress: Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression

“It is true, a woman’s highest duty is to her home, but that is just as true of man. But what an absolutely crazy and absurd proposition would it not be to argue that he would be a better father and a more loyal husband if we take away from him the right to vote. American manhood would resent as an insult any serious mention of such a theory. It is just as much an insult to American womanhood to say that giving her the full right of citizenship will interfere with a mother’s devotion to her children and her home.”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Progress: Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression

“My Sunday dress is all stained.”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Progress: Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression

“You’re God’s child. Always walk with dignity, and hold your head high,”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Progress: Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression

“I’ll ask Father,”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Progress: Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression

“Popsicles, Popsicles—my best pick,
Flavored ice stuck on a stick. It cools me off in the summer heat;
The yummy flavor is nice and sweet. Oh, the joy of a Popsicle’s hard to beat.”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Progress: Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression

“Mystery”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Struggle: Social Change, Native Americans, and Civil War

“Romans 9:20 says, ‘Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Progress: Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression

“People fear what they do not know.
How I wish it were not so. Suzette’s afraid of a God who gives love.
Vi’s afraid of a girl who needs love.”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Progress: Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression

“cleanup”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Struggle: Social Change, Native Americans, and Civil War

“Amazing that these feast days have been kept alive for thousands of years.”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Progress: Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression

“God is our protector,”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Progress: Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression

“Happy days are here again!
The skies above are clear again! Let’s all sing a song of cheer again—
Happy days are here again!”
― Veda Boyd Jones, American Progress: Battling Fear, Discrimination, and the Great Depression