Quote by Black Elk
Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all aga

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me. – Black Elk

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The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls. – Black Elk

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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it. – Black Elk

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Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us and it was very still but there were whispers. – Black Elk

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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty power is ever stealing from the many to the few. – Wendell Phillips

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Fight the power that be. Fight the power. – Spike Lee

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. – George Orwell

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To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile. – Simone Weil

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