Leonard Peltier Quotes - Page 2

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• Ultimately, I would like to say yes, conditions have improved, but there is still vast room for more improvement; we are still the poorest of the poor. And we are still statistically considered to be extremely disrupted culturally, and have extreme health needs in many areas, as well as high suicide rates and infant mortality rates.

  Leonard Peltier

  Suicide, Rooms, Needs

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• I was like so many others passion-ately involved in trying to bring those truths to the world's attention. We did our very best to peacefully do that. The city, state, and federal governments did their very best to quell our efforts. They were used to using heavy-handed tactics to silence us.

  Leonard Peltier

  Passion, Cities, Government

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• My continued incarceration has served some good purposes. My defense committee has served as a training ground for other organizers in their defense of freedom and justice.

  Leonard Peltier

  Justice, Training, Defense

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• In them days, it was just still not illegal to kill an Indian. If you killed an Indian, you'd be very unfortunate if you got probation - most of them were released immediately.

  Leonard Peltier

  Illegal, Probation, Unfortunate

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• I would like to say, historically, from the very beginning, our people have time and again expressed the need for people to live in harmony with the creator, the mother earth, fellow man, and respect our brother's vision. In the past and the present, we have been respon-sible for the greatest gains; cultivated foods and medicines; democratic government, and many other areas of concern.

  Leonard Peltier

  Mother, Brother, Men

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• It is a written fact that our people had warned of all these consequences of wrongful environmental behavior since our very first contact with the non-Indians. There was a time when our elders used to say to us, "You can't function with one foot in the white man's canoe and one foot in the Indian's canoe." With these extreme environmental concerns taking place on the earth, mankind is all in the same boat. Or better be.

  Leonard Peltier

  Men, White, Feet

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• I think only a massive public outcry would result in my receiving any measure of justice.

  Leonard Peltier

  Thinking, Justice, Receiving

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• AIM in essence is a movement rather than just an organization. It is a manifestation of the desperation of our people.

  Leonard Peltier

  Essence, Organization, People

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• The government and its prosecutors are continually trying to block my efforts to win my freedom and expose their judicial wrong doings; they systematically try to block me from obtaining FBI files which I know would exonerate me. I don't know the exact conditions of everybody else, but I do know that I have been denied adequate and proper health care and I suffer greatly from that.

  Leonard Peltier

  Block, Winning, Government

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• With what sovereignty we have retained, we choose to decide for ourselves our needs in accordance with our values, exerting our rights of empowerment under those articles of the treaties.

  Leonard Peltier

  Rights, Empowerment, Needs

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• I would like to say prison life at its very best and worst infinitely sucks.

  Leonard Peltier

  Prison Life, Prison, Worst

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• There are so many things that we could do but education would be our primary need in this regard. And in obtaining this education we need to also educate ourselves and others to the truths that we have possessed from the beginning that allow men to live in harmony with one another.

  Leonard Peltier

  Men, Would Be, Needs

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• During that time period all of our tribes were suffering extremely from poverty and neglect. And the reason I say neglect is because the U.S. Government was neglecting its true responsibilities they agreed to in exchange for our land and resources. What I and others attempted to do, and in essence we did, was bring attention to our sovereign rights, the rights we had retained when the treaties were made.

  Leonard Peltier

  Responsibility, Land, Essence

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• The FBI with their heavy influence on the judiciary system has successfully blocked me on every turn.

  Leonard Peltier

  Influence, Heavy, Blocked

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• Well... I still can't see the light at the end of the
  tunnel. These politicians are such sleazebags that you
  just don't know. You can't really get anything from a
  lot of them once they get into power. They totally
  forget about all their commitments. The poor people
  elect them, and they forget about all the poor people.

  Leonard Peltier

  Commitment, Tunnels, Light

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• The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

  Leonard Peltier

  Government, Bigs, Fbi

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• If you look at the statistics regarding Native Americans, you will see that most of the tribes since the 70s have improved their economic situation in some form. And this has been brought about by their aggressive assertion of their sovereign treaty rights.

  Leonard Peltier

  Native American, Rights, Statistics

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• Our people still need support. Support us through writing your government officials. We are still on the verge of extinction, with continued injustices brought against us.

  Leonard Peltier

  Writing, Government, People

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• The Government honoring our treaties and sovereignty is first and foremost. These issues are still the top priority which [Barak] Obama, if elected, has promised us. For us, we should implement the most impor-tant programs right now: they are programs to teach the children a positive sense of dignity, self-worth, and the importance of sustaining their culture, history, language and honor as a people.

  Leonard Peltier

  Children, Self Worth, Issues

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• It is difficult for me to talk about some of these things without reliving the extreme emotions and loss one always feels for the untimely deaths of acquaintances, family and friends, all because they stood up against the unlawful tyranny of non-Indian America.

  Leonard Peltier

  Loss, America, Family And Friends

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• I see, or at least it appears to me, that there is some concerted effort to discredit them, and categorize the American Indian Movement as some adverse entity, as opposed to it being a manifestation of the desperations of a whole race of people.

  Leonard Peltier

  Race, People, Effort

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• There are tribes, I should say nations, which prior to the AIM movement had only ten or fifteen employees, and now have upwards of 2000. There are educational programs that didn't exist before, there are housing programs, health programs, senior citizen programs, cultural programs and the list goes on. It's all because some people stood up and said sovereignty is our right by treaty and the constitution says treaty law is the supreme law of the land.

  Leonard Peltier

  Senior, Educational, Law

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• In the past, when we were initially organizing to bring about changes, our elders had little or no political experience. However, today, most of those American Indian Movement organ-izers are the elders. They are quite adept at bringing attention to the public about any attacks upon our people.

  Leonard Peltier

  Past, People, Political

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• I, however, fear that at some future point there will possibly be concerted backlash against us because of our successes in business and other ventures. I fear this because I see a concerted effort by writers across the countries to sway public opinions by past AIM organizers

  Leonard Peltier

  Country, Past, Effort

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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• My supporters and family have limited resources, very limited resources; but the FBI has the unlimited resources of the most powerful government in the world today. It's amazing that they haven't successfully had me assassinated since I have been in here. There have been plots uncovered in the past that I know of to have me killed.

  Leonard Peltier

  Powerful, Past, Government

  Source: montanapioneer.com

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