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Native Proverb: Never fo...

Native Proverb: Never follow a leader who is more in love with power than people
📅︎ Feb 03
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What springs from earth dissolves to...

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. - Marcus Aurelius
📅︎ Dec 18
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"When the blood in your veins returns to the sea, and the earth in your bon...

"When the blood in your veins returns to the sea, and the earth in your bones returns to the ground, perhaps then you will remember that this land does not belong to you, it is you who belong to the land." - unknown Native American
📅︎ Sep 13
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“We don’t inherit the Earth from...

“We don’t inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”—Native American Proverb
📅︎ Feb 25
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"In 1492 Christopher Columbus missed his mark by five thousand miles. He c...

"In 1492 Christopher Columbus missed his mark by five thousand miles. He called Native Americans Indians. He missed the hemisphere. Yet we still make statues to this moron and have named a day after him." -John "Bradshaw" Layfield
📅︎ Apr 05
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"In overlooking, denying, evading his complexity we are diminished and we perish; only w...

"In overlooking, denying, evading his complexity we are diminished and we perish; only within the web of ambiguity, paradox, this hunger, danger, darkness, can we find at once ourselves and the power that will free us from ourselves"- James Baldwin, Notes Of a Native Son
📅︎ May 27
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"The whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not...

"The whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives." - Pericles
📅︎ Sep 16
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"When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish...

"When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money." - Native American saying
📅︎ Oct 21
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No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ...

No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability, and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people. - Napolean Hill
📅︎ Oct 22
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"... owing to the bad example we have set them in all things, that these natives from doing n...

"... owing to the bad example we have set them in all things, that these natives from doing no evil have turned into people who can do no good... 'I inform your Majesty... I beg God to pardon me, ... seeing that I am the last to die of the conquistadors.'" - Mansio Serra de Leguizamón
📅︎ Apr 03
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"Only when the last tree has been cut, and the last fish ha...

"Only when the last tree has been cut, and the last fish has been caught and the last river has been poisoned, will man realize that he cannot eat money." - Native American tribe leader
📅︎ Apr 06
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"If you chase two rabb...

"If you chase two rabbits, you'll lose them both" -Native American saying.
📅︎ Apr 01
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"If an apple, severed by the tempest from its native tree, cannot choose but fall to th...

"If an apple, severed by the tempest from its native tree, cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its unnatural connexion with Spain, and incapable of self-support, can only gravitate towards the North American Union." - John Quincy Adams
📅︎ Jan 09
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