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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.
Alice Walker
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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.
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I grew up in the South [USA states] under segregation. I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. That's terrorism, too.
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