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Top 25 Winona LaDuke Quotes (2025 Update)

Winona LaDuke Quote: “Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn’t make a corporation a terrorist.”

1. “Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn’t make a corporation a terrorist.”

— Winona LaDuke

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Winona LaDuke Quote: “What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today.”

2. “What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today.”

— Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Quote: “If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.”

3. “If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.”

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Winona LaDuke Quote: “We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present.”

4. “We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present.”

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Winona LaDuke Quote: “Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.”

5. “Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.”

— Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Quote: “I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land.”

6. “I’m not a patriot to a flag, I’m a patriot to a land.”

— Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Quote: “There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.”

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

— Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Quote: “Ojibwe prophecy speaks of a time during the seventh fire when our people will have a choice between two paths. The first path is well worn and scorched. The second path is new and green. It is our choice as communities and as individuals how we will proceed.”

8. “Ojibwe prophecy speaks of a time during the seventh fire when our people will have a choice between two paths. The first path is well worn and scorched. The second path is new and green. It is our choice as communities and as individuals how we will proceed.”

— Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Quote: “What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.”

9. “What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.”

— Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Quote: “I would like to see as many people patriotic to a land as I have seen patriotic to a flag.”

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

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Winona LaDuke Quote: “I find that I have more allies on the left than on the right, and that is because the left is, by and large, filled with people who are challenging the present paradigm and power structure. I’m interested in totally transforming the structure that exists now, because it is not sustainable.”

11. “I find that I have more allies on the left than on the right, and that is because the left is, by and large, filled with people who are challenging the present paradigm and power structure. I’m interested in totally transforming the structure that exists now, because it is not sustainable.”

— Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Quote: “Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.”

12. “Mother Earth needs us to keep our covenant. We will do this in courts, we will do this on our radio station, and we will commit to our descendants to work hard to protect this land and water for them. Whether you have feet, wings, fins, or roots, we are all in it together.”

— Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Quote: “In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered.”

13. “In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered.”

— Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Quote: “The aboriginal peoples of Australia illustrate the conflict between technology and the natural world succinctly, by asking, ‘What will you do when the clever men destroy your water?’ That, in truth, is what the world is coming to.”

14. “The aboriginal peoples of Australia illustrate the conflict between technology and the natural world succinctly, by asking, ‘What will you do when the clever men destroy your water?’ That, in truth, is what the world is coming to.”

— Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Quote: “It is essential to collectively struggle to recover our status as Daughters of the Earth. In that is our strength, and the security, not in the predator, but in the security of our Mother, for our future generations. In that we can insure our security as the Mothers of our Nations.”

15. “It is essential to collectively struggle to recover our status as Daughters of the Earth. In that is our strength, and the security, not in the predator, but in the security of our Mother, for our future generations. In that we can insure our security as the Mothers of our Nations.”

— Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Quote: “Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.”

16. “Native communities are focal points for the excrement of industrial society.”

— Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Quote: “Native people – about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.”

17. “Native people – about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the uranium is either in Aboriginal lands in Australia or up in the Subarctic of Canada, where native people are still fighting uranium mining.”

— Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Quote: “The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.”

18. “The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.”

— Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Quote: “I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.”

19. “I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.”

— Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Quote: “The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one-third of the world’s resources is unsustainable. This level of consumption requires constant intervention into other people’s lands. That’s what’s going on.”

20. “The essence of the problem is about consumption, recognizing that a society that consumes one-third of the world’s resources is unsustainable. This level of consumption requires constant intervention into other people’s lands. That’s what’s going on.”

— Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Quote: “The Anishinaabeg world undulated between material and spiritual shadows, never clear which was more prominent at any time. It was as if the world rested in those periods rather than in the light of day. Dawn and dusk, biidaaban, mooka’ang. The gray of sky and earth was just the same, and the distinction between the worlds was barely discernible.”

21. “The Anishinaabeg world undulated between material and spiritual shadows, never clear which was more prominent at any time. It was as if the world rested in those periods rather than in the light of day. Dawn and dusk, biidaaban, mooka’ang. The gray of sky and earth was just the same, and the distinction between the worlds was barely discernible.”

— Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Quote: “By snowshoe, canoe, or dog team, they moved through those woods, rivers, and lakes. It was not a life circumscribed by a clock, stamp, fence, or road.”

22. “By snowshoe, canoe, or dog team, they moved through those woods, rivers, and lakes. It was not a life circumscribed by a clock, stamp, fence, or road.”

— Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Quote: “I don’t understand all the nuances of the women’s movement. But I do understand that there are feminists who want to challenge the dominant paradigm, not only of patriarchy, but of where the original wealth came from and the relationship of that wealth to other peoples and the earth. That is the only way that that I think you can really get to the depth of the problem.”

23. “I don’t understand all the nuances of the women’s movement. But I do understand that there are feminists who want to challenge the dominant paradigm, not only of patriarchy, but of where the original wealth came from and the relationship of that wealth to other peoples and the earth. That is the only way that that I think you can really get to the depth of the problem.”

— Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Quote: “Our forests are not for toilet paper. They are worth more standing than cut. That deserves to be defended, not only by native peoples but also by environmentalists.”

24. “Our forests are not for toilet paper. They are worth more standing than cut. That deserves to be defended, not only by native peoples but also by environmentalists.”

— Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Quote: “Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If you look at your history in this country, you find that for most rights, people had to struggle. People in this era forget that and quite often think they are entitled, and are weary of struggling over any period of time.”

25. “Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If you look at your history in this country, you find that for most rights, people had to struggle. People in this era forget that and quite often think they are entitled, and are weary of struggling over any period of time.”

— Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Quote: “I would argue yes. In fact, I would question the inverse. Can men of privilege... who do not feel the impact of policies on forests, children or their ability to breastfeed children... actually have the compassion to make policy that is reflection of the interests of others. At this point, I think not.”

26. “I would argue yes. In fact, I would question the inverse. Can men of privilege... who do not feel the impact of policies on forests, children or their ability to breastfeed children... actually have the compassion to make policy that is reflection of the interests of others. At this point, I think not.”

— Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke Quote: “In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures.”

27. “In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures.”

— Winona LaDuke

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