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I think we live in an industrial dimensional reality where we're programmed to believe what we're told. We're programmed to believe them. We're programmed to believe what that ruling class wants us to believe.
John Trudell
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John Trudell
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 15
Died: 2015
Died: December 8
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Because you look at it, you know, and there's basically one set of rules that protect that industrial ruling class. That's what the governments do, that's what the religions do. They protect the interests of that industrial ruling class.
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Believing isn't thinking, but we've been programmed to believe that believing is thinking. To use our intelligence to think means we're keeping the energy active, we're thinking, we're really using the power of our intelligence in a thinking way. But when we've been programmed to believe, we're no longer thinking, because energy flows.
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Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later and they still cant see us. We are still invisible.
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The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That's the great lie, is that it represents civilization.
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A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large.
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The past is more than a memory.
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We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings.
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We're all human beings and we all have feelings. And we all live in this industrial meat grinder where we don't really understand love anymore.
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In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation... the essence of minstrel.
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When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed they feel powerless... and we understand the psychological genocide that they have already inflicted upon their own people.
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Don't trust anyone who isn't angry.
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Protect your spirit, because you are in the place where spirits get eaten.
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Class is material consumed.
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Everything that has ever happened to us is there to make us stronger.
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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 must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off.
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