Indigenous Quotes - Page 12

• Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs - not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can be, that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves.

  Rollo May

  Running, Exercise, Men

  "Man's Search for Himself" by Rollo May, (p. 56), 1953.

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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.

  Race, Population, Doctrine

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• A city like Bombay, like New York, that is a recent creation on the planet and does not have a substantial indigenous population, is full of restless people. Those who have come here have not been at ease somewhere else. And unlike others who may have been equally uncomfortable wherever they came from, these people got up and moved. As I have discovered, having once moved, it is difficult to stop moving.

  Suketu Mehta

  New York, Moving, Somewhere Else

  Suketu Mehta (2006). “Maximum city: Bombay lost and found”, p.34, Penguin Books India

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• Many Indians have told me that the most basic difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that Westerners view the world as dead, and not as filled with speaking, thinking, feeling subjects as worthy and valuable as themselves.

  Derrick Jensen

  Thinking, Views, Differences

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “The Culture of Make Believe”, p.39, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• To reach your heart, as every indigenous tribe I know has told me, you must first remember your Divine Mother... Your Mother is alive and very much conscious... Earth is not a rock, she has a name and a personality in the cosmos. And believe me, she knows your name.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Mother, Believe, Heart

  Drunvalo Melchizedek (2008). “Serpent of Light: Beyond 2012: The Movement of the Earth's Kundalini and the Rise of the Female Light”, p.4, Weiser Books

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