Dee Brown Quotes

United States, Novelist
February 29, 1908 – December, 12, 2002.

Dorris Alexander "Dee" Brown was an American novelist, historian, and librarian. His most famous work, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) details the history of American expansionism from the point of view of the Native Americans.

Also known as Historian, Librarian

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

Dee Brown
- Dog
The librarians know the secrets, not the historians

Dee Brown
- Book
- Secret
- Library

The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to.

Dee Brown
- People
- Moving
- White
The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.

Dee Brown
- Life
- Why
- America
Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man...free to travel... free to stop...free to work...free to choose my own teachers...free to follow the religion of my Fathers...free to think and talk and act for myself.

Dee Brown
- Up
- Work
- Men
Nothing lives long Only the earth and mountains

Dee Brown
- Life
- Long
- Earth
You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted.

Dee Brown
- Up
- Done
- Book
To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

Dee Brown
- Nature
- Water
- Air