Not only did secular scientists rout the Christian fundamentalists, they placed themselves in the posture of knowing more, on the basis of their own very short-term investigations, than the collective remembrances of the rest of humankind.

Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make it available to others so that the lives they are leading make sense.

The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white scholar recognized by the academic establishment; in effect, the color of the skin guarantees scientific objectivity.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.

The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.

If you want to be sovereign, act sovereign.