Dennis Banks Quotes

I actually went to the frontline to be with my brothers at Standing Rock.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

I'm Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group.

'Rapa Nui' is about the conflict in the 1600s on Easter Island. It's about the clash of the royal clan and the working class.

Long live the Unity of Latin America.

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality.

What, then, unites nations? Interest and sentiment.

Latin America One Country Under One People

My efforts to raise the consciousness of Whites who are so against Indians in the States are bound to be stopped by the FBI sooner or later. But, no sweat, I'm Indian all the way and always will be. I'm not going to stop fighting until I die, and I hope I am a good example of a human and my tribe

We cannot afford to destroy the native institutions of the country. Our true mission lies not in the building here in Africa of a Negro state based solely on Western ideas, but rather a Negro nationality indigenous to the soil, having its foundation rooted in the institutions of Africa and purified by Western thought and development.

I'm half Native American and half Mexican and I support all native peoples around the world.

It's a cliche that cricket is the only unifying force in the Caribbean. It is but there are a lot of other factors that keep us apart. Success in sport and war will always unite but you need to have a greater foundation and greater core.

When I went to Standing Rock, it opened my mind, as did going to Indian reservations and speaking to kids about music and arts.

Even though the American Indian Movement on a national-international scale has proven to be extremely dysfunctional, the American Indian Movement I was associated with I'm very proud of. We were a revolutionary, militant organization whose purpose was spirituality first, and that's how I want to be remembered.

It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.

Our continents unification is at hand and we must stand to account.

Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.

I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

The real question is not what one person's going to do, what are we all going to do? How are we all going to pitch in to fix this party to make working America know that the Democratic party is absolutely on their side? That's the real question.

Nationalism cannot flower if it does not grow in the garden of internationalism.

I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.

By carrying the torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation.

What we're seeing in so many of the counterprotests. We're seeing America rise in a way that it did not in the '60s, which I think is powerful and symbolic to the rest of the world, that we reject the darkness and we embrace the light.

If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it.