# Quote — Nick Estes, Our History Is the Future

> We are challenged not just to imagine, but to demand the emancipation of earth from capital. For the earth to live, capitalism must die.

- Author: [Nick Estes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-estes.md)
- Book: [Our History Is the Future](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-estes/our-history-is-the-future.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nick_Estes#Our_History_Is_the_Future:Standing_Rock_Versus_the_Dakota_Access_Pipeline,_and_the_Long_Tradition_of_Indigenous_Resistance_(2019)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nick-estes/our-history-is-the-future/we-are-challenged