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Suzan Shown Harjo quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“For most Native Americans, there's no more offensive name in English. That non-Native folks think they get to measure or decide what offends us is adding insult to injury.”
-- Suzan Shown Harjo

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“Societies who do not care for their young people and old people are decadent, decaying societies.”
-- Suzan Shown Harjo

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“The schools I went to as a kid made me wary. It was clear to me that everything was a lie except math.”
-- Suzan Shown Harjo

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“I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try.”
“I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.”
“The greatest moments of Native History lie ahead of us if a great spiritual renewal and wakening should take place. The Native American has been a sleeping giant. He is awakening. The original Americans could become the evangelists who will help win America for Christ! Remember these forgotten people!”
“But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.”
“Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves.”
“A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'”
“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
“I loved her. I loved her with a something so fierce I couldn't even name it.”
“When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.181, Macmillan
“The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!”

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