Mary Brave Bird quotes
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“The land is sacred. These words are at the core of your being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take our land away and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies.”
-- Mary Brave BirdSource : Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.220, Grove Press
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“I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.”
-- Mary Brave BirdSource : Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.274, Grove Press
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“There is Indian time and white man's time. Indian time means never looking at the clock. ... There is not even a word for time in our language.”
-- Mary Brave BirdSource : Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes (2007). “Ohitika Woman”, p.37, Grove Press
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“People who want to be tattooed don't always have good taste.”
-- Mary Brave BirdSource : Mary Brave Bird (2014). “Ohitika Woman”, p.154, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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“We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.”
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“After macrobiotics, Zen, and channeling, the "poor Vanishing Indian" is once more the subject of "deep and meaningful conversation" in the high rises.”
-- Mary Brave BirdSource : Mary Brave Bird (2014). “Ohitika Woman”, p.140, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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“Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.”
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“The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.”
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“To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.”
-- Mary Brave BirdSource : "Lakota Woman". Book by Mary Brave Bird edited by Richard Erdoes (p. 244), 1990.
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Source : "I Hate the News" by Aaron Swartz, www.aaronsw.com. October 20, 2006.
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“When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.”
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