"Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If you look at your history in this country, you find that for most rights, people had to struggle. People in this era forget that and quite often think they are entitled, and are weary of struggling over any period of time"

-- Winona LaDuke

#Country Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Responsibility Quotes

“We aren't where we want to be; we aren't where we ought to be; but thank goodness we aren't where we used to be.”

Source : Lou Holtz, John Heisler (1989). “The fighting spirit: a championship season at Notre Dame”, Atria
“Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.”

Source : Virgil (1978). “Virgil: Georgics ; Aeneid I-VI. Eclogues”
“People should just be aware of how they are eating... yesterday I had a McDonald's breakfast and pizza too - but that's bad.”
“The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone â€” until they do.”
“The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy.”
“We Indians do not teach that there is only one god. We know that everything has power, including the most inanimate, inconsequential things. Stones have power. A blade of grass has power. Trees and clouds and all our relatives in the insect and animal world have power. We believe we must respect that power by acknowledging it's presence. By honoring the power of the spirits in that way, it becomes our power as well. It protects us.”
“I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that’s beckoning to you.”

Source : Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber
“I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.”

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