Racism is not dead, but it is on life support—kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists’.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

When civil fury first grew high, and men fell out they knew not why.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one is useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.