38 Quotes by Charles Alexander Eastman

Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

The red man divided mind into two parts, – the spiritual mind and the physical mind.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!

The Indian was a religious man from his mother’s womb.

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt and disgrace falling upon the ungenerous and mean person...