Marilou Awiakta quotes
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“When the people call Earth 'Mother,' they take with love and with love give back so that all may live.”
-- Marilou AwiaktaSource : Marilou Awiakta (1993). “Selu: Seeking the Corn-Mother's Wisdom”, Fulcrum Pub
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“Under reverent, patient care, the wild seed gradually relinquishes its protective husk and entrusts its reproductive life to human hands.(thus) this sacred law and covenant with Mother Earth; Respectful care brings abundance. If you take, you must give back-Return the gift.”
-- Marilou Awiakta
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“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“When mother is happy, family is happy. When family is happy, nation is happy.”
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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Source : "The Essays of A. J. Muste (Pacifism and Class War)". Book edited by Nat Hentoff, 1967.
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“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.”
Source : 1931 'Too Much!'.
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