Quotes by Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke

Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies, or in the safety of the woods, prayers are being repeated, as they have for thousands of years, and common people with uncommon courage and the whispers of their ancestors in their ears continue their struggles to protect the land and water and trees on which their very existence is based. And like small tributaries joining together to form a mighty river, their force and power grows.

Prayer

Struggle

Years

Brothers and Sisters: Our ancient homeland is spotted today with an array of chemical dumps. Along the Niagara River, dioxin, a particularly deadly substance, threatens the remaining life there and in the waters which flow from there. Forestry departments spray the surviving forests with powerful insecticides to encourage tourism by people seeking a few days or weeks away from the cities where the air hangs heavy with sulphur and carbon oxides.

Air

Brother

Powerful

I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.

Animal

Mother

Taken

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

Earth

Form

Support

In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures.

Government

Integrity

Native American

In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered.

Ecosystems

May

World

It is essential to collectively struggle to recover our status as Daughters of the Earth. In that is our strength, and the security, not in the predator, but in the security of our Mother, for our future generations. In that we can insure our security as the Mothers of our Nations.

Daughter

Mother

Women

It’s time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.

Addiction

Energy

Jobs

Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.

Feet

Hard Work

Mother

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.

Community

Environmental

Pollution

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Addiction

Air

Animal

Believe

Birth Defects

Brother

Cancer

Change

Clever

Community

Compensation

Country

Cutting

Daughter

Differences

Drinking

Earth

Ecosystems

Energy

Environmental

Fairy

Feet

Fighting

Fire

Form

Giving

Government

Hands

Hard Work

Individual

Integrity

Jobs

Lakes

Land

Long

May

Men

Military

Mother

Native American

Paper

People

Pollution

Powerful

Prayer

Responsibility

Skulls

Struggle

Support

Taken

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Quotes by Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke

I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures.

In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered.

It is essential to collectively struggle to recover our status as Daughters of the Earth. In that is our strength, and the security, not in the predator, but in the security of our Mother, for our future generations. In that we can insure our security as the Mothers of our Nations.

It’s time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.

Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.

Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.

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