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“"We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true." [said Obierika]"There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. We have albinos among us. Do you not think that they came to our clan by mistake, that they have strayed from their way to a land where everybody is like them?"”

People Thinking Men World Way Said Ends Stories Strong White Powerful Mistake Heard Sea Land Drink Gun Slave White Man Clans Abomination Strong Drink

Author:Chinua Achebe

“The white people's thought is full of ignorance. They constantly devastate the land they live on and transform the waters they drink into quagmires! There is only one sky and we must take care of it, for if it becomes sick, everything will come to an end.”

People Ifs Ends Care Water White Sky Land Ignorance Drink Sick Take Care Quagmire

Author:Davi Kopenawa Yanomami

“... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.”

Way Art Culture Clear Air Sky Land Wind Drink Lows Heavy Homeland

Book:How Writing Is Written

Source: How Writing Is Written

“On board ship there are many sources of joy of which the land knows nothing. You may flirt and dance at sixty; and if you are awkward in the turn of a valse, you may put it down to the motion of the ship. You need wear no gloves, and may drink your soda-and-brandy without being ashamed of it.”

Ifs Knows Needs May Joy Turns Society Land Source Drink Travel Ships Boards Ashamed Awkward Sixty Flirting Gloves Soda Brandy

Book:John Caldigate: Trollope's Works

Source: John Caldigate: Trollope's Works

“The man that gets drunk is little else than a fool, And is in the habit, no doubt, of advocating for Home Rule; But the best Home Rule for him, as far as I can understand, Is the abolition of strong drink from the land.”

Men Littles I Can Home Strong Doubt Land He Man Fool Habit Drink Drunk No Doubt Abolition Advocating Strong Drink Home Rule

Author:William Topaz McGonagall

“Water is life. We are the people who live by the water. Pray by these waters. Travel by the waters. Eat and drink from these waters. We are related to those who live in the water. To poison the waters is to show disrespect for creation. To honor and protect the waters is our responsibility as people of the land.”

People Shows Water Responsibility Land Creation Praying Honor Drink Protect Environmental Related Poison Live By Disrespect Water Is Life

Book:The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings

Source: The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings

“If you could drink dreams like the Irish streams Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn In the Pool they told us the story How the English divided the land.”

Ifs World Stories Dream Would Be Land Drink Mountain Streams Divided Pool

Author:John Lennon

“This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country... Here is the same India whose soil has been trodden by the feet of the greatest sages that ever lived... Look back, therefore, as far as you can, drink deep of the eternal fountains that are behind, and after that look forward, march forward, and make India brighter, greater, much higher, than she ever was.”

Looks Has Beens Made Country Home Behinds Greater Feet Land Higher Drink Eternal India Ancient Soil March Other Countries Sage Fountain Brighter

Author:Swami Vivekananda