Spirit and Resistance Quotes

“Economics assumes that people universally aspire to individualistic self-maximizing acquisition, so this discipline has functioned to institutionalize human greed as fundamental to the economic engine of the world system.”
― George E. Tinker, Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation

“the economically more powerful culture may not be the more powerful culture spiritually and morally.”
― George E. Tinker, Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation

“Contemporary euro-american occupation of Indian land is an important continuing benefit of the conquest that must be accounted for in the euro-american moral and spiritual inventory. In euro-american legal discourse, a recipient of stolen property is just as liable as the actual thief.”
― George E. Tinker, Spirit and Resistance: Political Theology and American Indian Liberation