This American government has become very adept at attaching labels to people who defend themselves, so that the general population in America will condone their behavior.
Leonard PeltierWe need to do more than just what is right. We need to join together and right what is wrong.
Leonard PeltierWhat I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people and wants to go home.
Leonard PeltierUnited States Government needs to acknowledge and respect our sovereignty, treaties, traditional Native American values, and our human rights as a people, which under the law as written we deserve, and which should be protected.
Leonard PeltierThe government and its prosecutors are continually trying to block my efforts to win my freedom and expose their judicial wrong doings; they systematically try to block me from obtaining FBI files which I know would exonerate me. I don't know the exact conditions of everybody else, but I do know that I have been denied adequate and proper health care and I suffer greatly from that.
Leonard Peltier