55 Quotes by Russell Means

May the Great Mystery continue to guide and protect the paths of you and your loved ones.

You can't talk about the environment, you can't talk about political correctness, affirmative action and all the other innumerable things that freedom is about, unless you have a free society based upon the integrity of the individual. If you have a responsible society, these other issues will not come up in a responsible society, and that is what freedom is all about.

They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry

If you learn from an experience, that's good - so nothing bad happened to you.

I’m a human being, I’m not anyone’s mascot! And I am America’s conscience. And that’s what they don’t want to look at. They would rather look at a cartoon character than at the deceit of this country and this government.

So I'd much rather get across the concept of freedom. It's what's important to Indian children. The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being. Otherwise you become what the colonizers have designed, and that is a lemming. Get in line, punch all the right keys, and die.

What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe.

Freedom is for everyone, whatever lifestyle they choose, as long as it's peaceful and honest

I've always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you're still alive.