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If
people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose
your land -- you lose your culture, you lose self.
-- Richard Gere |
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Most
governments in Latin America have failed to recognize
the rights of indigenous people and their right
to their own traditional territories.
-- Bianca Jagger
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Our
nation was born in genocide when it embraced the
doctrine that the original American, the Indian,
was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps the only
nation which tried as a matter of national policy
to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover,
we elevated that tragic experience into a noble
crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted
ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this
shameful episode.
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr
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Our
nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine
that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior
race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes
on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already
disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century
forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy.
We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter
of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population.
Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a
noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted
ourselves to reject or to feel remorse for this shameful
episode.
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr
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The
provision of basic material needs is not sufficient
to make minority groups and indigenous peoples feel
they are truly part of the greater national entity.
For that they have to be confident that they too
have an active role to play in shaping the destiny
of the state that demands their allegiance.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi
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[C]ivilization
has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved
and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered
areas of a soil rich in wild species […] Mankind has
opted for monoculture; it is in the process of creating
a mass civilization, as beetroot is grown in the mass.
Henceforth, man's daily bill of fare will consist only
of this one item.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss
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Drawing
from the tragic lessons of nuclear atrocities
experienced by the Indigenous Peoples we recognize
that the testing, development and use of nuclear
weapons is a crime against all humanitarian law…
-- Hilda Lini
Let
us learn from nuclear radiation victims and prevent
history from repeating itself.
-- Hilda Lini
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