“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.”
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“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.”
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War – E. Reclus (1898)
“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?”
“As long as there are States, there will be no peace.”
“The longest war that the United States government has ever waged has been against the American Indians. The war has never ceased.”
“Guided by Indian representatives from the National Indian Youth Council (NIYC), they saw the largest open pit uranium mine in the world, the Jackpile mine on the Laguna reservation, where Native American miners are on strike for a new contract.”
