John Trudell - Deal Quotes

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We must be willing in our lifetime to deal with reality. It's not revolution; it's liberation. We want to be free of a value system that's being imposed on us... Liberation —we want to be free. But in order for us to be free we have to assume... our responsibility. We are going to have to struggle for it. We are going to have to work [and be] committed to it. We must never underestimate our enemy. Our enemy is committed against us 24 hours a day. They use 100% of their efforts to maintain their... status quo. 100% of their effort goes into deceiving us and manipulating us against each other...

John Trudell
We must move to the time when we truly understand our connection to real power because these people who deal with illusions and imitations... they want to keep us confused with [the confining concepts of?] sexism and ageism, racism, class. They want to keep us in a confusion so that [we] will continue to believe in one lie after another as they programmed them into our minds and into our society... The ruling class... are going to lie to us and they are going to create the illusions of change...

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