Ailton Krenak Quotes

born 1954

Ailton Krenak (born 29 September 1953 in Itabirinha de Mantena, Minas Gerais, Brazil) is a writer, philosopher, journalist, and environmentalist of the Krenak people.

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Indigenous blood has been spilt over every hectare of Brazil’s 8m square kilometres. You are witnesses of this.

When we depersonalize the river, the mountain, when we strip them of their meaning – an attribute we hold to be the preserve of the human being – we relegate these places to the level of mere resources for industry and extractivism.

Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo (2019)

Humans only talk about human rights, and environmental law is anthropocentric, it has no interest in whether the forest will die, the river will be polluted.

Interview with Conectas (2021)

Indigenous peoples have suffered from the invasion of their world by chaotic, predatory practices. The man outside the forest, who eats hamburgers in Europe, needs it dead. This is environmental racism.

Interview with Conectas (2021)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ailton Krenak (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.