Mary Brave Bird Quotes

• La tierra es sagrada. Estas palabras están en el núcleo de tu ser. La tierra es nuestra madre, los ríos nuestra sangre. Si nos quitan la tierra, morimos. Es decir, muere el indio que llevamos dentro.

  Mary Pájaro Valiente

  Inspirational, Mother, Native American

  Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.220, Grove Press

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• The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

  Mary Pájaro Valiente

  Law, Mind, Purpose

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• Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

  Mary Pájaro Valiente

  Political, Moral, Force

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• I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.

  Mary Pájaro Valiente

  War, Lasts, Environment

  Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.274, Grove Press

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• There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means never looking at the clock. ... There is not even a word for time in our language.

  Mary Pájaro Valiente

  Time, Mean, Men

  Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.37, Grove Press

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• To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

  Mary Pájaro Valiente

  White, Class, Use

  "Lakota Woman". Book by Mary Brave Bird edited by Richard Erdoes (p. 244), 1990.

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• We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.

  Mary Pájaro Valiente

  Generations, Gaps, Canyons

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• People who want to be tattooed don't always have good taste.

  Mary Pájaro Valiente

  People, Want, Taste

  Mary Brave Bird (2014). “Ohitika Woman”, p.154, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises.

  Mary Pájaro Valiente

  Meaningful, Justice, Diversity

  Mary Brave Bird (2014). “Ohitika Woman”, p.140, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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