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John Trudell (February 15, 1946 – December 8, 2015) was a Native American author, poet, actor, musician, and political activist. He was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz. During most of the 1970s, he served as the chairman of the American Indian Movement, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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

Eaten, Protect, Spirit, Spirits

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.

Human, Ignorance, Part, Reality, Rights

I've never not been pleased with one of my albums. I figure because it's spoken word, there will be people who relate to it, and people who don't, so I don't worry about any of that. I've been doing it for over twenty years. I've always written because it was something I had to do, never for the glory.

Albums, People, Spoken, Worry, Years

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.

Blood, Civilization, Lie, Lying

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

Human, Inspirational, Life, Understanding, World

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.

Beliefs, Block, Create, Mental, Stress, Wall

They’re called poems but in reality they’re lines given to me to hang on to

Given, Lines, Poems, Reality

The strength of the poetry as we enter into whatever it is we are entering into, will be determined by the clarity of the thinking we put into it.

Thinking, Entering, Determined, Strength, Enter

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

Cry, Rain, Simple, Sky

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.

Class, Government, Industrial, Know, Looks, Protect

A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large.

Experiences, Observation, People, Seen, Things, Writing

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.

Human, Individually, Military, Power, Religious, System

As human beings, we're given intelligence. This is how we make our way through this reality, how we manifest our reality clearly and coherently.

Coherently, Given, Human, Reality, Way

The past is more than a memory.

Memories, Past, Memory

We use our intelligence, our creative intelligence, because we create with intelligence.

Create, Creative, Creative Intelligence, Intelligence, Use

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.

Historically, Militants, Native American, Savages, See, Years

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.

Blood, Culture, Doe, Earth, Planet, Same

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.

Anymore, Beings, Feelings, Humans, Meat, Understand

I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, and I'll go through these little bursts of time where I write a lot of things then a long period of time where maybe I don't write anything. Or these lines will come into my head and I'll write 'em down in a little book, just little sets of lines, but I won't try to make stories or poems out of them. I'm doing a lot of that now, just the lines.

Book, Head, Long, Things, Used, Writing

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

Everything, Happened, Make, Stronger

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