Activist quotes

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

Failure is impossible.

Stumbling is not falling.

In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.

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.

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.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.