Winona LaDuke Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“If you're going to spend most of your time in your democracy figuring out how to get oil by intervening into other people's countries and insuring that you follow it with military might, we think there's an alternative. Which would be renewable energy.”

“Ojibwe prophecy speaks of a time during the seventh fire when our people will have a choice between two paths. The first path is well-worn and scorched. The second path is new and green. It is our choice as communities and as individuals how we will proceed.”

“We are launching a campaign called Wind, Not War, which is about the alternatives to a fossil-fuels-based economy and looking at wind, an alternative energy, as key to that in terms of issues of global climate change as well as issues of democracy.”

“Actually, I consider myself to be pretty politically conservative.”

“America is so accustomed to some depiction of native people that is entirely racist, and there's a perception that that is okay.”

“I'm Harvard-educated; I'm an economist by training. I'm an author, a journalist, as well as being active in community development.”

“In most of America, it seems you don't matter if you're not between 25 and 50.”

“The thing about being an Indian person is that you feel most at home with your own people.”

“I used to go to some Harvard parties with my athlete friends, and they would introduce me as 'Winona, the Indian activist.' It made me uncomfortable. I felt like a novelty.”

“Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit.”