Give me fifty DC-3's and the Japanese can have the Burma Road.
I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.
Our forests are not for toilet paper. They are worth more standing than cut. That deserves to be defended, not only by native peoples but also by environmentalists.
You've got to get people to believe that change is possible. . . You have to show that you can fight things successfully even if you don't win.
We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives - whether they have fins, roots, wings, or paws.
The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one-third of the world's resources is unsustainable. This level of consumption requires constant intervention into other people's lands. That's what's going on.
I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land.
Raven: "You don't have a hot date, do you?" Alexander: "Yes. I do, as a matter of fact. " Raven: "You do?" Alexander: "Yes, and it is almost ending.
If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether one is a racist or a victim, one comes to feel the absurdity of life. . . . Racism generated from whites is first of all absurd. Racism creates absurdity among blacks as a defense mechanism.
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
When I write, I speak with ghosts for years, and I see images that are a little bit out of focus. I see faces, but the faces change. At the moment that it's a real human being that's flesh and bone, it changes a character. It's much more precise and complex.