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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right. (Black Elk )
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could. (Black Elk )
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people. (Black Elk )
Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been tolerant. (Black Elk )
Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance. (Black Elk )
Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world. (Black Elk )
Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them. (Black Elk )
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. (Black Elk )
Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it. (Black Elk )
There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. (Black Elk )
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her. (Black Elk )
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper. (Black Elk )
People say we're all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She's from New York. She doesn't have an accent. Some of these Latin people - their Spanish is pathetic. They learned it when they became famous as Latinos. (Black Elk )
So that this nation may long endure, I urge you to follow in the hallowed footsteps of the great disobedience of history that freed exiles, founded religions, defeated tyrants, and yes, in the hands of an aroused rabble in arms and a few great men. (Black Elk )
There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs. (Black Elk )
“The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others.” (Black Elk )
“The broad mass of a nation . . . will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.” (Black Elk )
We are truly one nation, under God, indivisible and that we must remain so in the face of any threat to ensure our country remains strong, united and free. (Black Elk )
We believe that Pope’s conviction was unjustifiable and wrong. We have said to the Russians at every level, from the president on down… that we believe he should be released on humanitarian grounds if nothing else. (Black Elk )
How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see the unification of all Africans (Black Elk )
The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation. (Black Elk )
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