John Trudell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 ***** people have, many things could change in this country.
-- John Trudell

#Country #Commitment #Marijuana
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
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

#Understanding #Feelings #Trying
Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm.
-- John Trudell

#Storm #Raindrops #Enough
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.
-- John Trudell

#Ignorance #Reality #Rights
Itâ€™s like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit.
-- John Trudell

#Essence #Energy #Predator
Weâ€™re not Indians and weâ€™re not Native Americans. Weâ€™re older than both concepts. Weâ€™re the people, weâ€™re the human beings.
-- John Trudell

#Native American #People #Humans
Don't trust anyone who isn't angry.
-- John Trudell

#Angry
We have power... Our power isnâ€™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 itâ€™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 #Reality
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
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
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.
-- John Trudell

#Thinking #Entering #Determined
Sometimes when it rains, it's not that simple, when the sky has reasons to cry.
-- John Trudell

#Rain #Simple #Sky
Protect your spirit, because you are in the place where spirits get eaten.
-- John Trudell

#Spirit #Protect
In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation... the essence of minstrel.
-- John Trudell

#Song #Reality #Essence
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.
-- John Trudell

#Blood #Doe #Culture
Theyâ€™re called poems but in reality theyâ€™re lines given to me to hang on to
-- John Trudell

#Reality #Lines #Given
The past is more than a memory.
-- John Trudell

#Memories #Past
Everything that has ever happened to us is there to make us stronger.
-- John Trudell

#Stronger

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