14 quotes found
“When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.”
“How can I tell a story we already know too well? Her name was Africa. His was France. He colonized her, exploited her, silenced her, and even decades after it was supposed to have ended, still acte...”
“Mankind without Earth is Humanity without a Home”
“Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.”
“I am glad we have not yet been able to reach the stars or inhabitable planets that dance about them. For they would in all probability be owned and divided by corporations and framed by industrial ...”
“It's quite conceivable that [life] will eventually spread through thegalaxy and beyond. So life may not forever be an unimportant tracecontaminant of the universe, even though it now is. In fact,I ...”
“To some Humans, the promise of a patch land was worth any effort. It was an oddly predictable sort of behavior. Humans had a long, storied history of forcing their way into places where they didn't...”
“Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?”
“I wondered if whiteness were contagious. If it were, then surely I had caught it. I imagined this condition affected the way I walked, talked, dressed, danced, and at its most advanced stage, the w...”
“She was a planet, way out in space, out of its orbit, and he was an unmanned spaceship, taking measurements of the atmosphere. She was not suitable for habitation.”
“How many extraordinary phenomena like this, so foreign to human comprehension, might lie concealed in space? Do we need to travel everywhere bringing destructive power on our ships, so as to smash ...”
“How then can the US society come to terms with its past? How can it acknowledge responsibility? The late Native historian Jack Forbes always stressed that while living persons are not responsible f...”
