Benny Wenda cytaty

Benny Wenda – papuaski aktywista, działacz na rzecz niepodległości Papui Zachodniej.

✵ 17. Sierpień 1975

Benny Wenda: 2 cytaty0 Polubień

Benny Wenda: Cytaty po angielsku

“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.”

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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

“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.”

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