Mary Brave Bird quotes

“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 Bird

Source : 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 Bird

Source : 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 Bird

Source : 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 Bird

Source : 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.”
-- Mary Brave Bird

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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 Bird

Source : 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.”
-- Mary Brave Bird

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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.”
-- Mary Brave Bird

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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 Bird

Source : "Lakota Woman". Book by Mary Brave Bird edited by Richard Erdoes (p. 244), 1990.

#Class Quotes #White Quotes #Use Quotes

“If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.”

“Most people's major life changes don't come from reading an article in the newspaper; they come from reading longer-form essays or thoughtful books, which are much more convincing and detailed.”

Source : "I Hate the News" by Aaron Swartz, www.aaronsw.com. October 20, 2006.

“Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.”

“Blaire, This was my grandmother’s. My father’s mother. She came to visit me before she passed away. I have fond memories of her visits and when she passed on she left this ring to me. In her will I was told to give it to the woman who completes me. She said it was given to her by my grandfather who passed away when my dad was just a baby but that she’d never loved another the way she’d loved him. He was her heart. You are mine. This is your something old. I love you, Rush”

“I wanted to live. For the father and brother who I never knew and for my mother who was cheated of a life of happiness. I wanted to live for them. And I wanted to live for me.”

“When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.”

“Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.”

“Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England”

“When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.”

“We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.”