Quotes About Bushmen

If someone starts talking about pride today I'm going to vomit... The Apache nation had pride and look where they are. The bushmen of Kalahari have pride and look where they are.

The Pygmies and the Bushmen, these oldest of all peoples, remind us that our capacities for mutuality, cooperation, and empathy are every bit as real and every bit as much a part of our humanity as our capacities for greed, competition, and exclusiveness. Raising their children with unlimited respect and treating each person as having infinite worth, they have survived longer than any other culture known to science.

What do you do if you get nailed by this poison?" The bushmen smiled broadly. "We die," they said.

The deeds of the heroes, in the sacred dream-time...the only time, according to the bushmen, that was real.