John Trudell - Power Quotes

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Every human being is a raindrop. And when enough of the raindrops become clear and coherent they then become the power of the storm.

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We have to understand our role as a Natural Power. We have to understand that when our oppressor treats us this way and does these things to us, that we allow him to do it as long as we accept his lies... We have been allowing it for too long...

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... We must not become confused and deceived by their illusions. There is no such thing as military power; there is only military terrorism... That is all that it is. They try to program our minds and fool us with these illusions so that we will believe that they hold the power in their hands... All they know how to do is act in a repressive, brutal way... They want us to believe in them and depend on them, and we have to assume these consumer identities, and these political identities, these religious identities and these racial identities [not to mention sexual ones]. They want to separate us from our Power... from who we are...

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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...

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