Winona LaDuke Quotes

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• Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people…
• What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today.
• Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt…
• The only compensation for land is land,
• You've got to get people to believe that change is possible... You have to show that you can fight things successfully even if you don't…
• I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land.
• I would like to see as many people patriotic to a land as I have seen patriotic to a flag.
• There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.
• It is essential to collectively struggle to recover our status as Daughters of the Earth. In that is our strength, and the security, not in…
• The idea is the least labor and capital and resources you put together and the more you accumulate the better capitalist you are. So the…
• Our forests are not for toilet paper. They are worth more standing than cut. That deserves to be defended, not only by native peoples but…
• The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to…
• The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you did not own…
• I don’t understand all the nuances of the women’s movement. But I do understand that there are feminists who want to challenge the dominant paradigm,…
• I find that I have more allies on the left than on the right, and that is because the left is, by and large, filled…
• Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is:…
• One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they are oppressed but…
• The thing about being an Indian person is that you feel most at home with your own people.
• Spirituality is the foundation of all my political work.
• What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this…

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