Benny Wenda Quotes

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“If you fell the trees then you destroy human culture as well as the birds of paradise. People depend on the forest and the forest has always depended on us. We are as one.”

Benny Wenda

As forests are cleared and species vanish, there's one other loss: a world of languages http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/08/why-we-are-losing-a-world-of-languages

People , Bird , Tree , Dependency

“We’re sick and tired of these stories. The reason they keep using the word ‘cannibal’ about us is because they think we’re savages. It’s like calling Germans today Nazis because of their past, or Britain a land where witches are burned at the stake, of child slavery and public executions. It’s just lazy, racist journalism.”

Benny Wenda

Survival and tribal people denounce ‘ludicrous’ cannibal claims http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/7807

Thinking , Past

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