| If
people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land -- you lose your
culture, you lose self. -- Richard
Gere |
[C]ivilization
has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated
in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in wild species […] Mankind has opted
for monoculture; it is in the process of creating a mass civilization, as beetroot
is grown in the mass. Henceforth, man's daily bill of fare will consist only of
this one item.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss
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Drawing
from the tragic lessons of nuclear atrocities experienced by the Indigenous Peoples
we recognize that the testing, development and use of nuclear weapons is a crime
against all humanitarian law… -- Hilda
Lini
Let us learn
from nuclear radiation victims and prevent history from repeating itself.
-- Hilda
Lini |
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