John Trudell - Understand Quotes

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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...

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...

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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