John Trudell - People Quotes

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... The only thing that has always bothered me about revolution, every time I have seen revolutionaries, they have reacted out of hatred for the oppressor. We must do this for the Love of our People... We must never react out of hatred against those who have no sense.

John Trudell

We must consider the Spiritual genocide that they commit against us. The spiritual genocide that the white people have been victimized by for thousands of years...

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

When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless... We see the physical genocide that they are attempting to inflict upon our lives, and we understand the psychological genocide that they have already inflicted upon their own people...

John Trudell