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“I did not see anything [New York 1886] to help my people. I could see that the Wasichus [white man] did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation's hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. This could not be better than the old ways of my people.”
― Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
― Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
“Every little thing is sent for something, and in that thing there should be happiness and the power to make happy. Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus we should do, for this was the wish of the
Grandfathers of the World.”
― Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
Grandfathers of the World.”
― Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
“What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.”
― Teaching Children to Love: 80 Games & Fun Activities for Raising Balanced Children in Unbalanced Times
― Teaching Children to Love: 80 Games & Fun Activities for Raising Balanced Children in Unbalanced Times
“If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or if your car is dangerous because you can't get it fixed and you DIE, you just lost the game-bzzzzz-thanks for playing extreme capitalism.”
― Attempting Normal
― Attempting Normal
“You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense.”
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