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Ghost of Tom Joad

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13. John Trudell--Santee Sioux Nation
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 04:35 PM
Monday

"You go back and you read your Constitution. You read your Declaration of Independence. And you will see that the only people who could decide these freedoms were white males who owned property, and all the rest of us were excluded."

"The great lie is that it is civilization. It's not civilized. It has been literally the most blood thirsty brutalizing system ever imposed upon this planet. That is not civilization. That's the great lie—is that it represents civilization."

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