John Trudell - Consciousness Quotes

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The poison and pollution in our environment affects how clearly we see things. We need to use our intelligence and organize our consciousness and our perceptions of reality. This is hard work, but it must be done. We are in an evolutionary reality. We are never given something we can't handle. It's about activating the thinking process, about the real value of our ability to think. I say don't believe anything the corporations hand us, whether it is TV, ads or the news as they tell us it is. I am a human, a member of a tribe, not a subject for corporate mining and exploitation. I don't trust their corporate "democracy". We humans must think for ourselves. That's what we need to give to the next generation.

John Trudell
... We are going to have to start working more realistically with a resistance consciousness, a resistance, something we can pass on as strength to the coming generations—a resistance where organizational...[and] individual egos don't get in the way, a resistance where the infiltrators and the provacateurs and the liars and the betrayers... do not get in the way. We will not get our liberation if we do not seriously analyze the experiences of our own lifetimes.

John Trudell
The other side... has studied. They understand what we were up to in the 1960's. They understand what we wanted in the early 1970's... They create certain events, and they manipulate the economics, and they manipulate circumstances because they want us to react the same way that we did in the 1960's so that they can come in and they can smash our movements. We must become of a resistance consciousness. We must say that we will not allow you to smash us. Even if it means that we have to deal with the part of you that you have planted in me...

John Trudell