“It is, in reality, an attempt at a history of AIM and also of the U.S. intelligence effort against Native people.”

“There were many years of growing pains before the BIC was to be able to stand on its own, but without women like Anna Mae, it would never have been possible.”

“Man, with all his intellect and sagacity, has chiefly succeeded in marring the very coating of the earth with the bleached corpuscles of his own sons.”

“AIM is not an organization. AIM, as its name clearly says, is a movement. Within that movement organizations come and go. No one person or special group of people runs AIM. […] There are no followers in AIM. We are all leaders.”

“It was then I knew I was coming home to my people”

“When white society succeeds it’s called colonialism. When white society’s efforts to colonize people are met with resistance it’s called war. But when the colonized Indians of North America meet to stand and resist we are called criminals.”

“The poor man knows only that he has a country because he has to serve in the army, and the benefits he receives from the country are the clubbing by the cop, the taxes to pay the government’s costs…”

“Parliamentarism is the art of making sufferers have patience eternally.”

“What is there astonishing in war breaking out when the whole of society, as constitutions and institutions have created it, rests on hostile interests and that a rumbling struggle rages in the depths?”

“Are we dogs or wolves?”