Inspiration

Mitakuye oysin (Lakota prayer/blessing. means "we are all related")

 :) xo Annette xo

Amache Prowers, my great, great, great grandmother, Cheyenne. Married to John Wesley Prowers. Both were jailed so they could not warn her family about the planned massacre at Sand Creek where her father Ochinee was killed. She is my favorite non-conformist for many reasons. Sadly in a typical heartless, probably ignorant act, the US government named a Japanese internment camp after her.

"A nation is not conquered
Until the hearts of its women are on the ground.
Then it is finished,
No matter how brave its warriors
Or how strong their weapons."

- Cheyenne Proverb

"Only after the last tree has been cut down; only after the last fish has been caught; only after the last river has been poisoned; only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten."

- Cree Indian Prophecy 

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
Voltaire

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. "
Martin Luther King Jr.

"Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider." 
Sir Francis Bacon

"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism." 
Dorothy Thompson

"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right." 
Laurens Van der Post

"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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