"Today the governments of Latin America should be ashamed of not havingexterminated the indigenous, at the end of the twentieth century, because weexist at the end of this century. We are not myths of the past, ruins in thejungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims ofintolerance and racism."

-- Rigoberta Menchu

#Zoos Quotes #Latin Quotes #Past Quotes

“Everyone has a worst time in their life. There's always a worse time. We are all either in a crisis, coming to one or coming out of one.”
“The same power that stopped the sun and raised Christ from the grave lives in every believer!”
“In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.”

Source : Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.121, University of Oklahoma Press
“We all give ourselves a lot of leeway, but we want consistency from other people.”
“I hope you can understand one thing, I will like you till the day I die. Don't they say there's no reasons when you love someone? It's a lie. I can tell you one hundred reasons. Your voice... Your fingers... Your scent... Your shadow... As long as it's a characteristic associated with a woman, I like them all... That is my reason.”
“Sometimes we gotta lose it to find it”

Source : Song: Flawed Beautiful Creatures, Album: BEcoming
“The best thing about the New Year is your 4.90 ERA disappears and starts back at zero.”
“We perversely see mother love as the problem--when it is all we have to sustain us--rather than blaming the fathers who have run out on our mothers and on us. We seem willing to forgive fathers for loving too little even as we still shrink in terror from mothers who love too much.”

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