Frases de Vine Deloria Jr.

Vine Victor Deloria Jr. foi um autor, teólogo, historiador e ativista pelos direitos dos nativos americanos. Ele era amplamente conhecido por seu livro Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto , que ajudou a atrair a atenção nacional para as questões dos nativos americanos no mesmo ano do Movimento Alcatraz-Red Power. De 1964 a 1967, ele atuou como diretor executivo do Congresso Nacional dos Indígenas Americanos, aumentando o número de membros de tribos de 19 para 156. A partir de 1977, ele foi membro do conselho do Museu Nacional dos Indígenas Americanos, que agora tem prédios na cidade de Nova Iorque e em Washington, D.C., no Mall.Deloria começou sua carreira acadêmica em 1970 no Western Washington State College em Bellingham, Washington. Tornou-se professor de Ciência Política na Universidade do Arizona , onde criou o primeiro programa de mestrado em Estudos Indígenas Americanos nos Estados Unidos. Em 1990, Deloria começou a lecionar na Universidade do Colorado em Boulder. Em 2000, ele voltou para o Arizona e deu aulas na Faculdade de Direito. A NBC chamou Vine Deloria de "estrela do renascimento dos indígenas americanos". Wikipedia  

✵ 26. Março 1933 – 13. Novembro 2005
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Vine Deloria Jr.: Frases em inglês

“Religion is for people who’re afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who’ve already been there.”

Commonly attributed to Deloria on the internet, or sometimes to a few others, but without legitimate sourcing, the earliest variant of this yet located is a single quotation in Awakened India Vo. 99 (1994) p. 327, ascribed to Fr. Patrick Collins, University of Notre Dame, USA:
Religion is for those who are afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who know they have been there — perhaps through involvement with religion.
The next variant located is ascribed to an anonymous member of Alcoholics Anonymous in Illuminating the Heart: Steps Toward a More Spiritual Marriage (1996) by Barbara G. Markway, p. 28:
Religion is for people who are afraid of going to hell; spirituality is for those who have been there.
A variant also occurs in The Higher Power of the Twelve-Step Program: For Believers & Non-Believers (2001), by Glenn F. Chesnut, Ch. 1 : Discovering a Higher Power:
Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell; twelvestep spirituality is for those who've been there.
Misattributed

“When ecologists find a predictable life-span of a generation separating us from total extinction, it would seem that we have a duty to search for another interpretation of mankind’s life story.”

As quoted in "Daniel Quinn: Another Interpretation of the ‘Meaning of Life" by Nicolae Tanase, at Excellence Reporter (28 March 2016) https://excellencereporter.com/2016/03/28/daniel-quinn-another-interpretation-of-the-meaning-of-life/

“When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours."”

As quoted in "Vine Deloria Jr." by Melissa Lorenz EMuseum @ Minnesota State University, Mankato (2008) https://web.archive.org/web/20080925082716/http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/mncultures/vinedeloriajr.htm