Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Mary Brave Bird

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Mary Brave Bird.

Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Mary Brave Bird, also known as Mary Brave Woman Olguin and Mary Crow Dog was a Sicangu Lakota writer and activist who was a member of the American Indian Movement during the 1970s and participated in some of their most publicized events, including the Wounded Knee Incident when she was 18 years old.

American - Writer | September 26, 1954 - February 14, 2013

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Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

Mary Brave Bird

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

Mary Brave Bird

To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.

Mary Brave Bird

After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises.

Mary Brave Bird

People who want to be tattooed don't always have good taste.

Mary Brave Bird

We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.

Mary Brave Bird

I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.

Mary Brave Bird

The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.

Mary Brave Bird

There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means never looking at the clock. ... There is not even a word for time in our language.

Mary Brave Bird