Charles Eastman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Among us all men were created sons of God and stood erect, as conscious of their divinity.”

“The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.”

“Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.”

“But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!”

“Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.”

“The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.”

“The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.”

“The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind.”

“The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.”

“At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan training.”