Davi Kopenawa Yanomami famous quotes

If my people are wiped out you must destroy all photographs of us, because future generations will look at our photographs and be too ashamed at such a crime against humanity.
-- Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

#People #History #Humanity

There is only one sky and we must take care of it, for if it becomes sick, everything will come to an end.
-- Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

#Sky #Sick #Care

The world needs to listen to the cry of the earth, which is asking for help. If you carry on killing people and you continue to destroy nature and you take out all the oil, the minerals and the wood, our planet will become ill and we’ll all die.
-- Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

#Oil #Asking For Help #People

The white people’s thought is full of ignorance. They constantly devastate the land they live on and transform the waters they drink into quagmires! There is only one sky and we must take care of it, for if it becomes sick, everything will come to an end.
-- Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

#Ignorance #Sky #White

Why is it taking so long to believe that if we hurt Nature, we hurt ourselves?
-- Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

#Hurt #Believe #Long

The white people's thought is full of ignorance. They constantly devastate the land they live on and transform the waters they drink into quagmires! There is only one sky and we must take care of it, for if it becomes sick, everything will come to an end.
-- Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

#Ignorance #Land #Sky

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble.

I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed.

Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

No religion is higher than humanity

By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes.

We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.