Indigenous Rights Quotes
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The role of globalization is to homogenize all cultures, and to turn them into commodified markets, and therefore, to make them easier for global corporations to control. Global corporations are even now trying to commodify all remaining aspects of national cultures, not to mention indigenous cultures.
-- Jerry Mander
"I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves."
-- Wilma Mankiller"One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful for the gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me."
-- Wilma Mankiller* I think the most important issue we have as a people is what we started, and that is to begin to trust our own thinking again and belive in ourselves enough to think that we can articulate our own vision of the future and then work to make sure that that vision becomes a reality.
-- Wilma Mankiller
* We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.
-- Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemala Nobel Peace Prize Winner, 1992
Any journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step. The collision of short and long food chains strategies are at the basis of our current crisis. Indigenous peoples living on their ancestral lands can help industrialized countries by living in a sustainable manner (not the contrary). If we destroy their environments and communities, we will lose the answers they have to solving our problems, and to the protection of our common futures. The most complex nuclear power station is less important than a tropical tree, and the most simple and sustainable answer more useful than any National Library.
-- Raśl Montenegro
Indigenous Rights Quotes
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INDIGENOUS RIGHTS
HERO PIX
Rebecca Adamson | Dennis Banks | Charles Eastman
Wilma Mankiller | Rigoberta Menchu
Indigenous Day - August 9
