"Some will say: "Why should we celebrate the birth of colonialism, of oppression, of cultural genocide through Canada 150?" It's 2017. In spite of the genocide we faced via the residential school system, and all we have endured from colonialism and control, from 1876 to this day, we're still here. We need to show the country and the world that we are still here."

-- Perry Bellegarde

#Country Quotes #School Quotes #World Quotes

“I feel like a visitor just about everywhere.”
“There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can't rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“No woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.”
“Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.”
“Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.”
“All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.”
“That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the course of his entire philosophic endeavor.”
“I want to be normal. I really want anonymity.”

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