John Trudell Quotes

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• Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later and they still cant see us. We are still invisible.

  John Trudell

  Native American, Years, Savages

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• We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these are authoritarian systems... they have power... but it’s not reality. The power of our intelligence, individually or collectively IS the power; this is the power that any industrial ruling class truly fears: clear coherent human beings.

  John Trudell

  Religious, Military, Power

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• Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm.

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  Power, People, Storm

  "What it Means to be a Human Being". John Trudell's speech in San Francisco, California, www.radio4all.net. March 2001.

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• I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human.

  John Trudell

  Inspirational, Life, Understanding

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• We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings.

  John Trudell

  Native American, Race, People

  "Reel Injun". Documentary, Western, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Protect your spirit, because you are in the place where spirits get eaten.

  John Trudell

  Spirit, Protect

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• We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off.

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  Ignorance, Reality, Rights

  John Trudell (1994). “Stickman: John Trudell Poems, Lyrics, Talks, a Conversation”

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• The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That's the great lie, is that it represents civilization.

  John Trudell

  Lying, Blood, Civilization

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When we're believing, we're not really thinking, because the belief has walls: "This is what I believe." So what I believe is like a box, and we're taking the energy of our thinking and putting into a box of beliefs, pretending that we're thinking. But we're really stifling our own energy. We create these mental stresses and frustrations, because we're blocking our spirit, so to speak.

  John Trudell

  Wall, Block, Stress

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Don't trust anyone who isn't angry.

  John Trudell

  Don't Trust Anyone, Can't Trust Anyone, Don't Trust

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless... and we understand the psychological genocide that they have already inflicted upon their own people.

  John Trudell

  White, America, People

  "The Indigenous Voice: Visions and Realities (Volume 2)". Book edited by Roger Moody, 1988.

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• I think it's the responsibility of every human being, not just those who wear the identity of poet, activist, voter, religious person... it's the responsibility of every person. Our responsibility is to use our intelligence as clearly and coherently as we possibly can.

  John Trudell

  Religious, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Everything that has ever happened to us is there to make us stronger.

  John Trudell

  Stronger, Happened

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• Our bones, flesh and blood are made up of the metals, liquids and minerals of the earth and everything on this planet is made up of the same things. As humans we have being, so everything on the earth does too in our culture, because we are made of the same thing.

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  Blood, Earth, Flesh

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• I think we live in an industrial dimensional reality where we're programmed to believe what we're told. We're programmed to believe them. We're programmed to believe what that ruling class wants us to believe.

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  Believe, Thinking, Reality

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Believing isn't thinking, but we've been programmed to believe that believing is thinking. To use our intelligence to think means we're keeping the energy active, we're thinking, we're really using the power of our intelligence in a thinking way. But when we've been programmed to believe, we're no longer thinking, because energy flows.

  John Trudell

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• We're all human beings and we all have feelings. And we all live in this industrial meat grinder where we don't really understand love anymore.

  John Trudell

  Feelings, Meat, Humans

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• It’s like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit.

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  Essence, Energy, Predator

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• The thing is, it has to do with heart - we have to understand what hearts are for before we can get back to heaven or paradise or the power in our minds.

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  Heart, Heaven, Mind

  John Trudell (2010). “Lines from a Mined Mind (Large Print 16pt)”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I've gone through most of my life not believing anything. Either I know or I don't know, or I think.

  John Trudell

  Believe, Thinking, Gone

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Sometimes when it rains, it's not that simple, when the sky has reasons to cry.

  John Trudell

  Rain, Simple, Sky

  "What it Means to be a Human Being". Speech in San Francisco, CA, March 2001.

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• The past is more than a memory.

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  Memories, Past

  "What it Means to be a Human Being". John Trudell's speech in San Francisco, California, www.radio4all.net. March 2001.

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• Because you look at it, you know, and there's basically one set of rules that protect that industrial ruling class. That's what the governments do, that's what the religions do. They protect the interests of that industrial ruling class.

  John Trudell

  Government, Class, Looks

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• I think that if the political and social movement groups and organizations that operate in this country today had the same kind of energetic commitment that the medical marijuana people have, many things could change in this country.

  John Trudell

  Country, Commitment, Thinking

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• As human beings we're living in a reality of industrial madness.

  John Trudell

  Reality, Madness, Humans

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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