The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this …

- John Trudell

Don't trust anyone who isn't angry.

- John Trudell

Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred ye…

- John Trudell

We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these are authorita…

- John Trudell

We’re not Indians and we’re not Native Americans. We’re older than both concepts. We’re the people, we’re the human beings.

- John Trudell

When we're believing, we're not really thinking, because the belief has walls: "This is what I believe." So what I believe is like a box, and we're t…

- John Trudell

When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless... and we understand the psycholo…

- John Trudell

Protect your spirit, because you are in the place where spirits get eaten.

- John Trudell

I'm just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing it's understanding of being human.

- John Trudell