Winona LaDuke Quotes

The Reality Is That The Founding Fathers Were Land Speculators. The Fact Was That You Couldn't Vote In This Country If You Did Not Own Land, And That Was Basically You Had To Be A White Man Who Owned Land. Now How Did They Get That Land? They Basically Had To Steal It From Someone, And That Would Be Probably The Indians. And So Most Of The Initial Founding Fathers Were, While They May Have Had Some Really Nice Ideas About Democracy, They Had A Lot Of Issues With People Of Color. They Had A Lot Of Issues With People Who Held Things That They Coveted.

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