Leonard Peltier Quotes


You can't believe one thing and do another. What you believe and what you do are the same thing.


Citations

Peltier, Leonard. Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance. Edited by Harvey Arden, St. Martin's Griffin, 1999.

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Leonard Peltier
Leonard Peltier
  • Born: September 12, 1944
  • Nationality: Native American (Dakota), Native American (Chippewa)
  • Profession: Philosopher

Leonard Peltier is an American activist, convicted of murder. An activist for Native American civil rights and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Chippewa, he joined the American Indian Movement in 1972. Since 1977, he has been imprisoned for the 1975 murders of two FBI agents at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He is of Lakota, Dakota and French descent.