Native Quotes - Page 14

• The daredevil aspect to what I did there is moving a monstrously big ship over a mountain in the jungle of Peru with 800 or 900 or so native people from the area. So that idea was wild but the way it was executed was prudent. Nobody was ever hurt and when it became clear that we had to be more secure with the posts that would hold the ship, I spent 12 days having a post built that would have withstood the force of 10 times the weight of my ship.

  Werner Herzog

  Hurt, Moving, Ideas

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be constantly reminded that there are still existent Indigenous peoples and communities in North America, but whether left or right, recent immigrant or descendants of settlers, even descendants of enslaved Africans, the Native presence is not a consideration in the day to day life of individuals and municipal, state and national governments.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  America, Government, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool.

  Vince Staples

  Native American, Tree, Calling

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Native advertising covers an awful lot of stuff. In many ways, it's just an extension of what in print had been called for years an advertorial.

  Norman Pearlstine

  Years, Awful, Way

  Source: wwd.com

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• Yes, there may be some convergence to what you see on a screen that's different from the way you will experience a magazine in your hand, but there are lots of ways you can signal differences. Where native advertising and these other things get tricky is when the consumer can't tell the difference between edit and advertising.

  Norman Pearlstine

  Differences, Hands, May

  Source: wwd.com

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• The Navajo Generating Station in Page, for example, employs hundreds of people, mostly Native Americans, and provides nearly all of the power for the Central Arizona Project. That means our entire state has a big stake in the energy production and economic stability of these plants.

  Ann Kirkpatrick

  Native American, Mean, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Let the good times roll is especially or risky message for African-Americans. The plain fact is that they tend to possess poor native judgment than members of better educated groups. Thus, they need stricter moral guidance from society.

  Steve Sailer

  African American, Groups, Needs

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• [Woman Walks Ahead] is from me being a very bizarre child. From the age of about 8 to the age of about 15, I was obsessed with Native Americans.

  Steven Knight

  Children, Native American, Age

  Source: collider.com

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• In the UK, most of the nasheeds that I did were in my native language, Urdu. Youngsters who could not understand the language came up to me... [and] said it was a great experience to just listen. That was actually very heart warming for me.

  Junaid Jamshed

  Heart, Native Language, Urdu

  Source: irusa.org

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• Our agreements on creating the conditions for preparing a peace treaty [with Japan] should be rooted in this trust. This may be achieved, for example, by large-scale economic activities that will also cover the Kuril Islands. It may be achieved by solving purely humanitarian issues, for instance, unhindered visa-free travel by former residents of the Southern Kuril Islands to where they used to live: visiting cemeteries, native places and so on.

  Vladimir Putin

  Creating, Issues, Islands

  Source: www.rt.com

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• As regards humanitarian issues and how to handle them, that was the Prime Minister's [Shinzō Abe] initiative. He brought the matter up at our last meeting in Lima and asked me straightforwardly whether we would agree to let Japanese citizens travel on a visa-free basis, resolve the issue in such a way as to enable them to visit the South Kurils, visit their native areas. I said at once that it was quite possible.

  Vladimir Putin

  Issues, Citizens, Matter

  Source: www.rt.com

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• Five hundred years later we're still doing it. This is a moment where we're either going to reaffirm that's what we do [with Native Americans ], that's who we are, or we're going to start moving toward change. A change won't come easy, because there's a lot of big money that doesn't care about any of this.

  Neil Young

  Moving, Native American, Years

  "For Neil Young, the Trump Era Feels a Lot Like the ’60s". Interview With Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. December 11, 2016.

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• If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one of the Indian casinos. The Native Americans, who stand for vertical thinking more than anyone else in our culture, have been setting up totally flat casinos for honkies.

  Robert Bly

  Native American, Thinking, Culture

  Source: www.utne.com

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• Adolescents are in just as much trouble in Native America as they are in the white community.

  Robert Bly

  White, America, Community

  Source: www.utne.com

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• I think there's a good case for antinatalism. Stephen Hawking has told us recently that we must colonise space to survive, not long after telling us to beware of aliens because they'll probably just do to us as the conquistadors did to the native peoples of the Americas. So . . . exactly why do we want to go on and on, to go forth and multiply in a hostile final frontier? Why?

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Thinking, Space, Long

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Perception, Sainthood

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• There is less pressure on abandoning native communities: what for? There is nothing to be gained by it. On one hand, there are plenty tempting opportunities of experimenting with identities - being one kind of person today and a different the next day. On the other hand, there is little pressure to include the ethnic identity or religious identity into this mechanism, because now everybody is in a kind of Diaspora today.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Religious, Opportunity, Hands

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• In one of his final acts in office, President Obama shortened the sentences of 209 prisoners, pardoned 64 individuals .The list included Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, longtime imprisoned Puerto Rican independence activist Oscar López Rivera and retired U.S. Marine Corps General James Cartwright. But missing from the list is 71-year-old Native American activist Leonard Peltier.

  Amy Goodman

  Native American, Marine, Army

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Europe is a very different place from my native country of Colombia and my children are growing up in a very urban setting which is nothing like when I was growing up and would be able to play barefoot in the street. But we have a very good life.

  Shakira

  Country, Children, Growing Up

  Source: www.viva-press.com

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• In Hollywood Westerns even in the Thirties and Forties, history was mythologized to accommodate some kind of moral code. And what really affects me deeply is when you see it taken to the extent where Native Americans become mythical people.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Taken, Native American, People

  Source: www.jonathanrosenbaum.net

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• The strike and its outcome had an enormous impact on the system of education and on our lives as well. The strike began as a response to the college's refusal to hire Professor Nathan Hare [the so-called father of black studies], and certainly unified the college around issues of justice. These issues were reflected in many communities: the Asian American community, Hispanic community, Native American community.

  Danny Glover

  Father, Native American, College

  Source: progressive.org

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• The environmental catastrophes we're presently seeing are considered "normal" though they're horrific. Fracking has made drinking water flammable, families are dying from planned lead poisoning in Flint, Michigan, mountaintop removal is killing families throughout Appalachia, and oil/mining companies continue to denigrate Native American and indigenous rights throughout the world (see North Dakota Pipeline presently). This is horrific - and yet we somehow consider it normal.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Drinking, Native American, Oil

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I have a sense that South Africa is my other country apart from my native country that I particularly love, [that I] want to see succeed, and I did really want my message to be listened to.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Want, Messages

  Source: www.dailymaverick.co.za

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• In a country lacking leaders, in Africa, for instance, how could a native educated in Europe refuse to become a professor, even at the price of his literary vocation?

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Country, Europe, Leader

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• Human learning is a very aggressive style in its native state. I am not sure why, though it is a very useful trait in an unstable, unpredictable living environment.

  John Medina

  Style, Environment, States

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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