All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been a…

- Russell Means

I don't want to be remembered as an activist; I want to be remembered as an American Indian patriot.

- Russell Means

We Indians do not teach that there is only one god. We know that everything has power, including the most inanimate, inconsequential things. Stones…

- Russell Means

The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.

- Russell Means

I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated.

- Russell Means

[The is] a mistaken belief that [the word Indian] refers somehow to the country, India. When Columbus washed up on the beach in the Caribbean, he was…

- Russell Means

It’s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.

- Russell Means

'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

Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing b…

- Russell Means