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Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.


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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.



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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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I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.



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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.



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We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.



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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.



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