"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 natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off."
"Just because you have indian blood, if you live white, that doesn't really make you an indian" —https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Goh0CFSHCs
"With one 42 cent arrow we stopped it."
"Don't trust anyone who isn't angry."
Lines From a Mined Mind, 2008
"As human beings it is time to take responsibility for the power of our Intelligence and use the power of our intelligence to think coherently This isn't about whether we can or we can't This is about whether we will or we won't"
"As human beings how we use our intelligence to perceive reality dictates how we will use the power of our intelligence."
Trudell documentary, 2005
"It has been, literally, the most blood thirsty, brutalizing system ever imposed on this planet. That is not civilization. That's the great lie - is that it represents civilization. That's the great lie. Or if it does represent civilization, and that's truly what civilization is, then the great lie is that civilization is good for us."
"Crazy horse, we hear what you say. One earth, one mother, one does not sell the earth that people walk upon. We are the land, how do we sell our mother? How do we sell the star? How do we sell the air? Crazy horse, we hear what you say. The spirit of life is almost non-existent in the perceptual reality of the society that we're in. It is almost non-existent. They got religion, they got civilization, they got military, they have politics, they have education, they have all the stuff, but they don't have the spirit to live."
"Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent, they then become the power of the storm."
"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."
"I think it's the responsibility of every human being, not just those who wear the identity of poet, activist, voter, religious person... it's the responsibility of every person. Our responsibility is to use our intelligence as clearly and coherently as we possibly can."
"The Earth does not grow drugs. It grows plants, herbs, and medicines."
"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 out of hatred against those who have no sense."
"It’s like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit."
"When we leave as humans we go back to being. Being human being that really means something. But we live in a reality now in a time, where. I would say to anyone ya know, protect your spirit. Protect your spirit, because. Because you're in the place where spirits get eaten."
"I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing its understanding of being human."
"An Indian is someone you rob, someone you steal from."
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