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Source: Dr. Ivan Van Sertima- 8 DVD video lectures: 8 DVDs, Best viewed on wifi on phones or tablets. iPads or Android (use google Play Book app to view. Gmail account required)

“Many of the tribal reservations today remain mired in poverty and alcoholism because many native [sic] Americans continue to cling to the darkness of indigenous superstition instead of coming into the light of Christianity and assimilating into Christian culture.”

Light Today Christian Culture Christianity Poverty Darkness Native Superstitions Alcoholism Indigenous Reservations

Author:Bryan Fischer

“We must be willing to begin with positive teaching, not with negative prohibitions, and be content to wait and to watch whilst the native Christians slowly recreate their own customs as the Spirit of Christ gradually teaches them.”

Christian Spirit Waiting Christ Watches Teach Teaching Willing Negative Native Customs Prohibition

Author:Roland Allen

“An important United Nations environmental conference went past 6:00 in the evening when the interpreters' contracted working conditions said they could leave. They left, abandoning the delegates unable to talk to each other in their native languages. The French head of the committee, who had insisted on speaking only in French throughout the week suddenly demonstrated the ability to speak excellent English with English-speaking delegates.”

“Sun and moon have no light left, earth is dark; Our women's world is sunk so deep, who can help us? Jewelry sold to pay this trip across the seas, Cut off from my family I leave my native land. Unbinding my feet I clean out a thousand years of poison, With heated heart arouse all women's spirits. Alas, this delicate kerchief here Is half stained with blood, and half with tears.”

World Years Heart Helping Light Earth Spirit Left Dark Pay Half Sun Cutting Blood Sea Feet Land Tears Thousand Moon My Family Clean Poison Native Delicate Thousand Years Alas Jewelry Native Land

Author:Qiu Jin

“When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.”

Source: Course of the History of Modern Philosophy

“She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.”

Men Would Be Lying Speak Language Brain Class Study Mouths Tongue Remembered Native Deceit Strings Steel Skulls Portuguese Science Class Josie

Book:Nineteen Minutes: A novel

Source: Nineteen Minutes: A novel

“We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end.”

Ends Order Issues Finals Productivity Native Meaningless Factories Neurosis Docile Meaningless Life

Author:Lewis Mumford

“What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.”

Loss Grief Greater Land Native Lost Friendship Lost Friend Native Land

Author:Euripides

“Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted that “the country will be in the hands of white Gaucho savages instead of copper-coloured Indians. The former being a little superior in education, as they are inferior in every moral virtue.”

Littles Country Hands White Moral Virtue Superiors Former Native Savages Inferiors Atrocities Argentina Rosa Copper Juan Moral Virtues

Book:Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

Source: Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

“I am a nationalist... my native soil is the theatre.”

Theatre Soil Native

Author:Cyril Cusack

“Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are deliberate ecodeath. Yet, tree planting is often pictorially advertised on television and in national magazines by focusing on cupped caring hands around a seedling. But forests do not need this godlike interference... Planting tree plantations is permanent deforestation... The extensive planting of just one exotic species removes thousands of native species.”

“For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance.”

Kind Littles White Deserve Distance Native Thrive Native American Protestants Anglo Saxon Inverted Away We Go

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native species in the community where they lived: Pikachu, Metapod, and Wigglytuff were names more familiar to them than otter, beetle, and oak tree.”

Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.”

World War Childhood Shoes Stores Remembered War Of The Worlds Native World War Ii Boots World War I Berlin

Author:Lukas Foss

“America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on a tree. America is the illiterate immigrant who is ashamed that the world of books and intellectual opportunities are closed to him. We are all that nameless foreigner, that homeless refugee, that hungry boy, that illiterate immigrant and that lynched black body. All of us, from the first Adams to the last Filipino, native born or alien, educated or illiterate-We are America!”

Source: America is In the Heart: A Personal History

“There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology.”

People Young Technology Native Engagement

Author:danah boyd

“What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed! - seems native more of air Than earth! - whose burden only lends him fire! - Whose soul, in his task, turns labour into sport; Who makes your pastime his! I sit him now! He takes away my breath! He makes me reel! I touch not earth - I see not - hear not. All Is ecstasy of motion!”

Soul Seems Earth Turns Sports Challenges Fire Air Wind Tasks Breaths Delight Burden Speed Flying Native Labour Ecstasy Your Past Pastime

Book:The Daughter: A Play in Five Acts

Source: The Daughter: A Play in Five Acts

“In its sacredness, families get together to (unintentionally?) celebrate one genocide (against Native Americans) by committing another (against turkeys).”

Together Celebrate Native Vegetarian Vegan Genocide Native American Turkeys Get Together Sacredness Family Get Together

Author:Daniel Brook

“Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us. It is a belief that all humankind are related to each other. Each has a purpose, spirit and sacredness. It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways. And in this understanding we believe we are related to all other living species.”

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