Sharice Davids Quotes

Issues that have relevance to the tribal community have routinely been minimized and ignored.

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.

Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people, or He would protect them.

Keeping people on the margins of cultural, social and political life constitutes in many nations one of the most glaring injustices of our time.

Slowly but surely, little by little, many different groups of vulnerable bodies and people have been targeted from since the beginning of time, from since the beginning of the construction of America and all the civilizations from around the world pre-colonially.

I know that when we deprive communities of their voice, it can be dangerous.

'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out.

Why didn't we recognize how much it bothered them spiritually and politically?

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

Flagrant injustice, cruelty and oppression…if left unchecked will so multiply that the whole of the native border tribes will be provoked into a battle of dangerous exasperation.

Politicians have forced us into parallel societies by denying for so long that we existed and pretending for so long that we were going home.

What is the matter with us Indians that we are sick in our own air and these strangers [colonial whites] are well.

The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.

So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.

We still have an underclass in this country who are constantly ignored and vilified.

There are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions - not just black women but other women of color. Not just people of color, but people with disabilities. Immigrants. LGBTQ people. Indigenous people.

It's not new to attempt to vilify the minority that speaks about their oppression. That's not a new thing.

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

I was born outraged. I was born without, knowing my people were not counted, not included, not centered. I struggled through low-resourced schools, communities, and housing projects.

What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe.

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.

I come from a place where we feel like we're not represented in the national media.