True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself.

Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free.

I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around.

I've always considered myself a man of integrity as a leader of the American Indian Movement and of Indian people. I will stand that test against anyone at anytime, anywhere.

Imagine going to the holy land in Israel, whether you're a Christian or a Jew or a Muslim, and start carving up the mountain of Zion. It's an insult to our entire being. It's bad enough getting four white faces carved in up there [on Mount Rushmore], the shrine of hypocrisy.

Colonialism has completed the destruction of the American Indian in the United States - the cultural destruction.