Winona LaDuke Quotes About Struggle

Quotes about: Struggle

• 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.

  Winona LaDuke

  Prayer, Struggle, Years

  Winona LaDuke (2002). “The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings”, p.64, Voyageur Press (MN)

• 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, Struggle, Responsibility

• 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.

  Winona LaDuke

  Daughter, Mother, Women

• What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.

  Winona LaDuke

  Struggle, Long, Giving

  "Celebrating Hellraisers: Winona LaDuke" by Jay Walljasper, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1996.

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