Resistance

We want to be free of a value system
that is being imposed on us.
We do not want to participate in that value system.
We don't want to change that value system.
We want to remove it from our lives forever.
We must never underestimate our enemy.
Our enemy is committed against us twenty-four hours a day.
They use one hundred percent of their effort
to maintain their materialistic status quo.
One hundred percent of their effort goes into deceiving us
and manipulating us against each other.
We have to devote our lives, we have to make our commitment,
we have to follow a way of life that says we are going
to resist that forever ... a resistance:
something that we can pass on as strength to the coming generations.
A resistance where organizational egos don't get in the way.
A resistance where individual egos do not get in the way.
A resistance where the infiltrators and the provocateurs
and the liars and the betrayers and the traitors, they do not get in the way ...
a resistance of consciousness.

This is our obligation to the earth.
And only by fulfilling our obligation to the earth
can we fulfill our obligations to the people.

- John Trudell -
"STICKMAN" - 1980