"Education will lead to understanding; understanding will lead to action. Education and understanding are going to be key to moving us forward. That's why I take every opportunity I can to try to educate Canadian people on the impact of intergenerational trauma. To tell them how, until 1951, indigenous people weren't allowed to leave the reserve without a permit. That it was illegal for a lawyer to give us advice. It was illegal for us to sell our wood, our cattle, without a permit. I want the next generation to understand we have endured, we have persevered and we are getting stronger."

-- Perry Bellegarde

#Moving Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #People Quotes

“But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.”

Source : FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Sep 30, 2015
“Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.”
“If we go to work at 8 am and go home at 5 pm, this is not a high-tech company and Alibaba will never be successful. If we have that kind of 8-to-5 spirit, then we should just go and do something else.”
“I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.”
“I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.”
“Writing is both my expression to the world and my way to hide from it - you get who I am without actually seeing me.”
“I think I land somewhere between Scorsese and Capra in what I'm drawn to emotionally; I'm drawn to very intense emotion. Capra freaked people out when they saw Jimmy Stewart lose it in 'It's a Wonderful Life.”

Source : "David O. Russell is Back in the Neighborhood". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2012.
“Now get the hell out of here and go change the world.”

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