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“What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people and wants to go home.”

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Leonard Peltier

Leonard Peltier is an American Indian activist born on September 12, 1944. He is known for his involvement in the American Indian rights movement, particularly his role in the American Indian Movement (AIM). more

“The government and its prosecutors are continually trying to block my efforts to win my freedom and expose their judicial wrong doings; they systematically try to block me from obtaining FBI files which I know would exonerate me. I don't know the exact conditions of everybody else, but I do know that I have been denied adequate and proper health care and I suffer greatly from that.”

Knows Trying Has Beens Government Care Suffering Winning Effort Conditions Block Health Care Denied Adequate Files Fbi Judicial Obtaining Doings Prosecutor Wrong Doings

Author:Leonard Peltier

“My continued incarceration has served some good purposes. My defense committee has served as a training ground for other organizers in their defense of freedom and justice.”

Purpose Justice Training Defense Committees Incarceration Organizer

Author:Leonard Peltier

“I am tired, I want to go home. I want to continue my art work, I want to plant a garden, I want to walk in the forest, I want to walk in the fields, I just want to lie down on the grass and feel the sun against my skin. I want to be able to hold my family close to me and not have someone tell me time's up.”

Want Feels Art Home Able Lying Walks Sun Fields Garden My Family Skins Tired Plant Forests Grass

Author:Leonard Peltier

“At this writing I can't even shut my lower jaw because of inadequate health care. I can't chew my food, I have trouble walking...the list goes on. But more than anything I want to go home. If you follow the laws at the time of my conviction I should have been released already.”

Ifs Want Should Writing Has Beens I Can Home Care Law Trouble Goes On Walking Should Have Conviction Lists Health Care Should Have Been Inadequate

Author:Leonard Peltier

“As to whether I will ever get out, it will obviously take some large measures of public opinion because the judiciary system of America is totally interlaced with bureaucratic influences that perpetuate FBI control over judges, prosecutors and court proceedings.”

America Opinion Influence Judging Court Public Opinion Fbi Proceeding Judiciary Prosecutor

Author:Leonard Peltier

“I think only a massive public outcry would result in my receiving any measure of justice.”

Thinking Justice Results Massive Receiving

Author:Leonard Peltier

“We have over the years proven again and again that every piece of evidence used to convict me has been false. The FBI with its unlimited resources has done everything it possibly can to keep me in prison.”

Years Has Beens Done Used Pieces Evidence Resources Prison Again And Again Proven Unlimited Fbi Convicts

Author:Leonard Peltier

“My supporters and family have limited resources, very limited resources; but the FBI has the unlimited resources of the most powerful government in the world today. It's amazing that they haven't successfully had me assassinated since I have been in here. There have been plots uncovered in the past that I know of to have me killed.”

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Author:Leonard Peltier

“Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.”

Pleasure Feminism Teaching Mets Pushing

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