Indigenous Exclusion Quotes

#1. Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#2. The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

Hans Hofmann

#3. the problem of gender identity is our evasion of the implications of power and our may-I-say-"feminine" inclinations to make nice. War is not nice.

June Jordan

#4. I'm really proud of the characters I've been able to play. Certainly, playing the character on 'CSI' as Dr. Sherman Hawkes is a wonderful stereotype-busting role.

Hill Harper

#5. If you have a sacred place and use it, take advantage of it, something will happen.

Joseph Campbell

#6. In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our government, under the slogan 'Bolivia Changes,' is committed to ending the colonialism, racism and exclusion that many of our people lived under for many centuries.

Evo Morales

#7. Those who keep speaking about the sun while walking under a cloudy sky are messengers of hope, the true saints of our day.

Henri Nouwen

#8. I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. I have written likewise (and repeat my words) that reforms, to be beneficial, must come from above, that those which come from below are irregularly gained and uncertain.

Jose Rizal

#9. As an indigenous leader from Bolivia, I know what exclusion looks like. Before 1952, my people were not allowed to even enter the main squares of Bolivia's cities, and there were almost no indigenous politicians in government until the late 1990s.

Evo Morales

#10. Like every other mortal who has ever been touched by suicide, I had the fallacious belief that I could have done something to stop it.

Patricia Cornwell

#11. Excellent leaders of people lower themselves.

Laozi

#12. My vegetable love will grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow.

Andrew Marvell

#13. There's nothing better than listening to music that compliments my mood.

Jasmine V

#14. If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

A.A. Milne

#15. Unless it was about to cause you bodily harm, rot your rhubarb on the stalk, or carry off your children, weather ought either to be celebrated or ignored.

Tom Robbins

#16. When the people whom we love the most leave us, we start learning to live with the shadows they have left inside us.

Akshay Vasu

#17. Learning is better worth than houses or land.

George Crabbe