John Trudell Quotes

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• I think that if the political and social movement groups and organizations that operate in this country today had the same kind of energetic commitment…
• I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human.
• The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this…
• It’s like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit.
• The past is more than a memory.
• Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm.
• Sometimes when it rains, it's not that simple, when the sky has reasons to cry.
• The strength of the poetry as we enter into whatever it is we are entering into, will be determined by the clarity of the thinking…
• We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of…
• Our bones, flesh and blood are made up of the metals, liquids and minerals of the earth and everything on this planet is made up…
• Everything that has ever happened to us is there to make us stronger.
• We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings.
• Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later…
• Protect your spirit, because you are in the place where spirits get eaten.
• In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation... the essence of minstrel.
• They’re called poems but in reality they’re lines given to me to hang on to
• Don't trust anyone who isn't angry.
• We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these…
• When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless [. .…
• No matter what they ever do to us, we must always act for the love of our people and the earth. We must not react…

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