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The Revolution We Need
When I go around America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed. They feel powerless. When I go amongst my own people, we do not feel powerless. We feel oppressed. We do not want to make the trade. We see the physical genocide they are attempting to inflict upon our lives and we understand the psychological genocide they have already inflicted upon their own people … that this is the trade-off they want us to make for survival, that we become subservient to them, that we no longer understand our real connection to power, our real connection to the earth.
We must be willing in our lifetime to deal with reality. It’s not revolution we’re after; it’s liberation. We want to be free of a value system that’s being imposed upon us.
— John Trudell, Survival Gathering
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Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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“To raise a nature-bonded child is to raise a rebel, a dreamer, an innovator… someone who will walk…
