John Trudell - Liberation 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 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