Loss Quote by Paula Gunn Allen Download Open image “The root of oppression is the loss of memory.” — Paula Gunn Allen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Loss Loss Memory Loss Of Memory Memories Memory Oppression Oppression Loss Root Oppression Roots
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
Oppression doesn't disappear just because you decided not to teach us that chapter. — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“Oppression is the seed of power; you will plant it against yourself” — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to attempt to give the word "useful" an absolute meaning; nothing is useful if it is not useful to man; nothing is useful to man if the latter is not in a position to define his own… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share
Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
My mother told me stories all the time... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I was supposed… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Idealization of a group is a natural consequence of separation from the group; in other words, it is a by-product of alienation. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Breath is life, and the intermingling of breaths is the purpose of good living. This is in essence the great principle on which all… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
The hoop dancer dances within what encircles him, demonstrating how the people live in motion within the circling spirals of time and space. They… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Medicine people are truly citizens of two worlds, and those who continue to walk the path of medicine power learn to keep their balance… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
The Indians used to be the only inhabitants of the Americas, but times change. Having perceived us as belonging to history, they are free… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
We are the land. To the best of my understanding, that is the fundamental idea that permeates American Indian life. — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Certainly, it is. Love is love, and loss is loss. We all love, and we all die, and everyone suffers the pain of grieving.… — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
Shhh.” He put a finger to her lips. “Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
“Good morning,” one of the soldiers said. “I’m Captain Joseph Walker and this is Sergeant James Vanetten. We are members of the One-Hundred-and-First Airborne… — Shafter Bailey Copy Share Image
When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult. — Cristiano Ronaldo Copy Share Image
Many companies have long contended that stress in the home causes productivity loss in the market place.. and it does. But research now reveals… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
A lost love. Deny it who will, ridicule it, treat it as mere imagination and sentiment, the thing is and will be; and women… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“This book is written in a barren period of loss with an attempt to move forward towards substance.” — Phindiwe Nkosi Copy Share Image
My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
