Rolling Thunder (person)
Rolling Thunder (birth name: John Pope; 1916–1997) was a Native American medicine man. He was raised in Oklahoma and later moved to Nevada and lived with the Western Shoshone. He married his first, Spotted Fawn, who was Shoshone.
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Famous quotes containing the words rolling and/or thunder:
“Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring,
ring with the harmonies of liberty.
Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies;
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.”
—James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)
“O the orator’s joys!
To inflate the chest, to roll the thunder of the voice out from the ribs and throat,
To make the people rage, weep, hate, desire, with yourself,
To lead America—to quell America with a great tongue.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)