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Top 25 Russell Means Quotes (2025 Update)

Russell Means Quote: “Freedom is for everyone, whatever lifestyle they choose, as long as it’s peaceful and honest.”

1. “Freedom is for everyone, whatever lifestyle they choose, as long as it’s peaceful and honest.”

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Russell Means Quote: “It’s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.”

2. “It’s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.”

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Russell Means Quote: “The United States is a fake country.”

3. “The United States is a fake country.”

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Russell Means Quote: “I’m a human being, I’m not anyone’s mascot! And I am America’s conscience. And that’s what they don’t want to look at. They would rather look at a cartoon character than at the deceit of this country and this government.”

4. “I’m a human being, I’m not anyone’s mascot! And I am America’s conscience. And that’s what they don’t want to look at. They would rather look at a cartoon character than at the deceit of this country and this government.”

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Russell Means Quote: “I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around.”

5. “I find freedom to be the most important issue facing any human being today, because without freedom, then life is pointless. The more dependent you become on centralized power, the more easily you are lead around.”

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Russell Means Quote: “May the Great Mystery continue to guide and protect the paths of you and your loved ones.”

6. “May the Great Mystery continue to guide and protect the paths of you and your loved ones.”

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Russell Means Quote: “What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe.”

7. “What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe.”

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Russell Means Quote: “Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we’ll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.”

8. “Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we’ll be able to do that is to gain our freedom.”

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Russell Means Quote: “I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated.”

9. “I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated.”

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Russell Means Quote: “Hollywood hasn’t changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.”

10. “Hollywood hasn’t changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.”

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Russell Means Quote: “They don’t understand that a slice of the pie isn’t the whole pie – but they wonder why they are always hungry.”

11. “They don’t understand that a slice of the pie isn’t the whole pie – but they wonder why they are always hungry.”

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Russell Means Quote: “If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free.”

12. “If I want my people to be free, Americans have to be free.”

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Russell Means Quote: “When a woman grabs my braids and says “How cute!” I crab her breast and say “How cute!” She never touches me again!”

13. “When a woman grabs my braids and says “How cute!” I crab her breast and say “How cute!” She never touches me again!”

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Russell Means Quote: “It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.”

14. “It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.”

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Russell Means Quote: “The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.”

15. “The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.”

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Russell Means Quote: “In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.”

16. “In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.”

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Russell Means Quote: “Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to know what we have done and accomplished in this century other than what Olympic athletes Jim Thorpe and Billy Mills have done.”

17. “Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to know what we have done and accomplished in this century other than what Olympic athletes Jim Thorpe and Billy Mills have done.”

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Russell Means Quote: “I’d like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that’s basically becoming limited.”

18. “I’d like to talk about free markets. Information in the computer age is the last genuine free market left on earth except those free markets where indigenous people are still surviving. And that’s basically becoming limited.”

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Russell Means Quote: “I’ve always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you’re still alive.”

19. “I’ve always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you’re still alive.”

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Russell Means Quote: “Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain.”

20. “Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain.”

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Russell Means Quote: “If you learn from an experience, that’s good – so nothing bad happened to you.”

21. “If you learn from an experience, that’s good – so nothing bad happened to you.”

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Russell Means Quote: “The one thing I’ve always maintained is that I’m an American Indian. I’m not politically correct.”

22. “The one thing I’ve always maintained is that I’m an American Indian. I’m not politically correct.”

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Russell Means Quote: “I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.”

23. “I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.”

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Russell Means Quote: “Let me go to Clinton’s new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they’re doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.”

24. “Let me go to Clinton’s new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they’re doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.”

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Russell Means Quote: “So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.”

25. “So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.”

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