"We are a spirit, we are a natural part of the earth, and all of our
ancestors, all of our relations who have gone to the spirit world, they are
here with us.  That's power.  They will help us.  They will help us to see if
we are willing to look.  We are not seperated from them because there's no
place to go -- we stay here.  This is our place: the earth.  This is our
mother: we will not go away from our mother.

"And no matter what they ever do to us, no matter how they ever strike at us,
we must never become reactionary.  The one thing that has always bothered
me about revolution, every time I have seen the revolutionary, is they have
reacted out of hatred for the oppressor.  We must do this for the love of our people.
No matter what they ever do to us, we must always act for the love of our people
and the earth.  We must not react out of hatred against those who
have no sense." - Trudell
Black Hills Survival gathering, 1980

POWER
"We must not become confused and deceived by their illusions. There is no
such thing as military power; there is only military terrorism. There is no
such thing as economic power; there is only economic exploitation. That is
all that it is. They try to program our minds and fool us with these
illusions so that we will believe that they hold the power in their hands
but they do not.
   All they know is how to act in a repressive, brutal way...Power...we are
a natural part of the earth. We are an extension of the earth, we are not
seperate from it. We are a part of it. The earth is our mother. The earth is
a spirit and we are an extension of that spirit. We are spirit. We are
power. They want us to believe that we have to believe in them and depend
upon them and we have to consume these consumer identities and these
religious identities and these political identities and these racial
identities. They want to seperate us from our power. They want to seperate
us from who we are.
   Genocide. Genocide is just an intellectual way of saying: murder, because
we live in a so-called civilized industrialized world, and because this
world is allegedly civilized and allegedly has laws, they can't go out and
call an act of murder "murder" anymore, so they call it genocide to throw
another illusion in our eyes."

RESISTANCE
"We want to be free of a value system that is being imposed on us.  We do not
want to participate in that value system.  We don't want to change that value
system.  We want to remove it from our lives forever.

"We must never underestimate our enemy.  Our enemy is committed against us
twenty-four hours a day.  They use one hundred percent of their effort to
maintain their materialistic status quo.  One hundred percent of their effort
goes into deceiving us and manipulating us against each other.  We have to
devote our lives, we have to make our committment, we have to follow a way of
life that says we are going to resist that forever ... a resistance: something
that we can pass on as strength to the coming generations." - Trudell

"A resistance where organizational egos don't get in the way.  A resistance
where individual egos do not get in the way.  A resistance where the
infiltrators and the provocateurs and the liars and the betrayers and the
traitors, they do not get in the way ... a resistance of consciousness.  This
is our obligation to the earth.  And only by fulfilling our obligation to the
earth can we fulfill our obligations to the people.

"We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights.  We must go beyond the
ignorance of civil rights.  We must step into the reality of natural rights
because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a
small part of it.  There can be no trade-off." - Trudell

The above excerpted from: "STICKMAN" - John Trudell (Pg. #: 28 =//= ISBN 0-9625119-8-6

An approximate 90 minute radio interview with John Trudell is available on line in two parts audio .RAM file  Part 1 and Part 2