Winona LaDuke
(1959-)

Native American Land Rights Activist, Writer, Environmentalist
1988 Reebok Human Rights Award
National Women's Hall of Fame

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birthplace:
Los Angeles, California

QUOTES

There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals. ”

“ We don't want a bigger piece of the pie. We want a different pie. ”

“ The only compensation for land is land. ”

“ I would like to see as many people patriotic to a land as I have seen patriotic to a flag.

“We don't think scientists have the right to contaminate the state grain -- and it could happen through cross-pollination, if they develop a genetically enhanced wild rice and plant it in Minnesota.”

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