Ancestor Quote by Winona LaDuke Download Open image “Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.” — Winona LaDuke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancestor Descendants Gratitude
“Let us thank God for having given us such ancestors; and let each successive generation thank Him, not less fervently, for being one step… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
I hope that we will honor our ancestors and our future generations. — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers. — Roh Moo-hyun Copy Share Image
Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?' — Jonas Salk Copy Share Image
As a nation, a society, a family and an individual, we must be grateful to our great ancestors who dedicated their lives to laying… — Master Jin Kwon Copy Share Image
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.” — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development. — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today. — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
I used to go to some Harvard parties with my athlete friends, and they would introduce me as 'Winona, the Indian activist.' It made… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That's what we would call it. You've got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Now that I think about it, I was arrested in 1992. Some people may think of that as a bad thing, but I feel… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
The military is the largest polluter in the country, and so you have a lot of military waste contaminating reservations - as, for example, on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation, where 5,000 sheep died in some kind of experimental military nerve gas test 10 years ago. Many of our communities are dealing with that kind of waste, and an absence… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share
The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one-third of the world's resources is unsustainable. This level of… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
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 land, and that was basically you had to be a white man who owned land. Now how did they get that land? They basically had to steal it from someone, and that would be probably… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share
“The question of socialism or communism or capitalism or between the left and right – I think the important question is between the industrial society and the earth-based society. And I say that because I believe that capitalism and communism are really much more about how the wealth is distributed, if it trickles down or is appropriated at the beginning… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share
The first thing I am is a person. I am a woman. And I am part of a nation, the Indian nation. But people… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share
Food binds us to our roots as strongly as any song or poem. Many of us have learned more about our ancestors in the… — Anna Thomas Copy Share Image
Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are,… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors; our bodies… — Alyson Richman Copy Share Image
There is an ancient Indian saying: "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." If we use… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
It is how it has always been. We will accept the legacy of our ancestors,' Asha says, smiling, and in her smile I do not see warmth or wisdom; I see fear. You're afraid of losing your hold on them,' I say coolly. I? I have no power.' Don't you? If you keep them from the magic, they will never… — Libba Bray Copy Share
My ancestors came over from Germany about the time of the Civil War and one of them lost a leg and went back to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
