{"quotes":[{"text":"You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.","author":"Muhammad Ali Jinnah","tags":["ali","corruption","development","discipline","education","equality","faith","guard","harmony","islam","jinnah","justice","leader","life","love","maintenance","manhood","morals","muhammad","native","pakistan","peace","power","social","society","soil","stand","system","thinking","unity","values"],"id":15511,"author_id":"Muhammad+Ali+Jinnah"},{"text":"As you speak I swear I can hear words being selected, one after another, from the word-box you carry around with you, and slotted into place. That is not how a true native speak, one who is born into a language.’‘How does a native speak?’‘From the heart. Words well up within and he sings them, sings along with them. So to speak.","author":"J.M. Coetzee","tags":["english","language","native"],"id":57850,"author_id":"J.M.+Coetzee"},{"text":"The land is always there...It is you who has to return.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["abroad","always","land","motherland","native","nativeland","patriot","patriotic","patriotism","retreat","return","soil"],"id":76331,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"Mykl d’Angelo groaned where he sat slumped in his chair. The irritating noise was unsettling his pet dog lying on his lap. The wickerwork garden chair creaked pleasantly under him and some native Earth birds made pleasant sounds above while the cool wind wafted over him as he lazily ….","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["above","chair","creaked","earth","he","lap","lazily","mykl","native","noise","pleasantly","sat","slumped","the","was","while"],"id":100247,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"If the bible be true, God commanded his chosen people to destroy men simply for the crime of defending their native land. They were not allowed to spare trembling and white-haired age, nor dimpled babes clasped in the mothers' arms. They were ordered to kill women, and to pierce, with the sword of war, the unborn child. 'Our heavenly Father' commanded the Hebrews to kill the men and women, the fathers, sons and brothers, but to preserve the girls alive. Why were not the maidens also killed? Why were they spared? Read the thirty-first chapter of Numbers, and you will find that the maidens were given to the soldiers and the priests. Is there, in all the history of war, a more infamous thing than this? Is it possible that God permitted the violets of modesty, that grow and shed their perfume in the maiden's heart, to be trampled beneath the brutal feet of lust? If this was the order of God, what, under the same circumstances, would have been the command of a devil? When, in this age of the world, a woman, a wife, a mother, reads this record, she should, with scorn and loathing, throw the book away. A general, who now should make such an order, giving over to massacre and rapine a conquered people, would be held in execration by the whole civilized world. Yet, if the bible be true, the supreme and infinite God was once a savage.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["bible","book","brutal","children","commandments","defense","destroy","devil","father","general","god","heart","hebrews","history","jehovah","loathing","lust","maidens","massacre","mercy","modesty","native","numbers","priests","read","savage","scorn","sword","the-bible","the-devil","wife","women","yahweh"],"id":101044,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores.","author":"Douglas Tallamy","tags":["animals","conservation","diversity","endangered","extinction","gardening","native","nature","plants"],"id":112194,"author_id":"Douglas+Tallamy"},{"text":"I could hear my abandoned dreams making a racket in my soul.","author":"Joy Harjo","tags":["autobiography","fulfillment","memoir","native","single-motherhood"],"id":129393,"author_id":"Joy+Harjo"},{"text":"Kingdom laws are inherent to the native of mankind.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["kingdom","laws-inherent","mankind","native"],"id":140083,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Based on the medical evidence that clearly states that being above 10,000 feet is hazardous to the health of sea level adapted humans, it is clear that all of the manned facilities on top of the 13,796 feet Mauna Kea summit in Hawaii should be removed and the summit restored back to its native environment.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["adapted","environment","evidence","facilities","feet","hawaii","hazardous","health","humans","kea","level","manned","mauna","medical","native","removed","restored","sea","summit","top"],"id":152114,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"In the Western tradition there is a recognized hierarchy of beings, with, of course, the human being on top—the pinnacle of evolution, the darling of Creation—and the plants at the bottom. But in Native ways of knowing, human people are often referred to as “the younger brothers of Creation.” We say that humans have the least experience with how to live and thus the most to learn—we must look to our teachers among the other species for guidance. Their wisdom is apparent in the way that they live. They teach us by example. They’ve been on the earth far longer than we have been, and have had time to figure things out.","author":"Robin Wall Kimmerer","tags":["evolution","human","native","native-american"],"id":153790,"author_id":"Robin+Wall+Kimmerer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}