Ancestor Quotes - Page 23

• It is said that our indigenous ancestors, Mayas and Aztecs, made human sacrifices to their gods. It occurs to me to ask: How many humans have been sacrificed to the gods of Capital in the last five hundred years?

  Rigoberta Menchu

  Sacrifice, Years, Lasts

  Source: www.indians.org

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• I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

  Robert Bly

  Mother, Father, Sibling

  Source: www.utne.com

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• Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select - doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

  John B. Watson

  Men, Artist, Race

  Source: jaosnuvanitte.wordpress.com

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• When the feminist movement was at its zenith in the late 60's and early 70's, there was a lot of moving away from the idea of the person. It was: let's talk about the ideas behind the work, and the people matter less. It was kind of a gimmicky thing, but lots of feminist women were doing it. Many of us took the names of our female ancestors - bell hooks is my maternal great grandmother - to honor them and debunk the notion that we were these unique, exceptional women. We wanted to say, actually, we were the products of the women who'd gone before us.

  Bell Hooks

  Moving, Grandmother, Unique

  Source: nefac.net

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• I want to be remembered as someone who tried to bring the story of our ancestors to the broadest possible audience. I want to be remembered as a man who loved his race.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Men, Race, Stories

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• [Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came from, who created Barbour. It just seemed like such a great connection.

  Sam Heughan

  Vices, Connections, Village

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hero, Society, Oneself

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• With my tongue in one cheek only, I'd suggest that were our palaeolithic ancestors to discover the peer-review dredger, we would be still sitting in caves.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Would Be, Peers, Sitting

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.

  Alice Walker

  Ifs

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• Searching for alternative life on Earth might seem misconceived, because there is excellent evidence that every kind of life so far studied evolved from a common ancestor that lived billions of years ago. Yet most of the life that exists on Earth has never been properly classified.

  Paul Davies

  Years, Alternatives, Earth

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• I have no absolute right to my wealth; it comes from my ancestors, my parents and from the billions of people who have worked before me to learn, to develop, to create the foundations and wealth of this planet. It is my turn to contribute to the progress of humanity. I will be grateful for anything I am paid in return.

  Robert Muller

  Grateful, People, Parent

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• The only way we are going to reduce disease, is to go backward to the diets and lifestyles of our ancestors.

  Denis Parsons Burkitt

  Disease, Way, Lifestyle

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• Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and people we've never met. We have stories we love to tell and stories we have never told anyone. The extent to which others know us is determined by the stories we choose to share. We extend a deep trust to someone when we say, "I'm going to tell you something I've never told anyone." Sharing stories creates trust because through stories we come to a recognition of how much we have in common.

  Julius Lester

  Writing, People, Stories

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• Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are the most secure, and that their ideas on religion, ethics and justice are the most enlightened. Like us, they think that final knowledge is at last within reach. Like us, they pity the people in earlier ages for not knowing the true facts. Unfailingly, human beings pity their ancestors for being so ignorant and forget that their descendants will pity them for the same reason.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Real, Believe, Knowledge

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• Sacrifice is a state of mind in which our thoughts turn with longing [toward Heaven, the Ancestors], It is the supreme expression of loyalty, love, and respect.

  Xunzi

  Loyalty, Sacrifice, Expression

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• It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Son, Army, Revolution

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• When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Arms, Harvest

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.13, Heinemann

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• American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.

  Spike Lee

  Holocaust, Honor, Slavery

  Twitter post from Dec 22, 2012

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• But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Our Generation, White, People

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• Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.

  Learned Hand

  Black, Liberty, Atrocities

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

  Eric Cantona

  Fighter

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• My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.

  Alice Walker

  Skins, World

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

  Michael Behe

  Ideas, Doubt, Common

  "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Book by Michael Behe, 1996.

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• To be treaty person means coexist in peace and with mutual respect. That's at the core of these treaties. They intended for us to mutually benefit from sharing the land and its resources. To us, this contract and agreement is a sacred covenant whose signing was witnessed by your God, we call him the Creator, and by your angels, we call them ancestors. You can't break that. We didn't just sign it one day. It took months to prepare, to plan, to seek guidance.

  Perry Bellegarde

  Mean, Angel, One Day

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

  Plato

  Plato, Justice, Lasts

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.166, Booklassic

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