CategoryNon-fiction

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

I realized that something would happen to me today, but I did not know what it would be.

Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Let me be a free man – free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.

Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.

Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.

Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee