Aboriginal Quotes · Page 2

The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies.

— Arthur Murray

Yes, I am Aboriginal but I have the right to be avant-garde like any white artist.

— Tracey Moffatt

“For your Jesus said you're supposed to give the oppressed a better deal”

— Kev Carmody

I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.

— Tori Amos

I hope that I am helping to create an understanding and an awareness of what happened to the Aboriginal people.

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage

— Tony Abbott

When I started I was pretty well the only Aboriginal player who was playing tournaments.

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

I come from a very matriarchal family, which is the case for a lot of Aboriginal families.

— Madeleine Madden

A future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with an equal stake in shaping…

— Kevin Rudd

In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according…

— Mary Hunter Austin

I find it difficult to say I'm black first and a woman second or vice versa. I can't make that kind of…

— Pat O'Shane

You can create something strong in art with a few notes. It is like how Aboriginal drawings have a simplicity that is…

— Ludovico Einaudi

The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people…

— Tony Abbott

What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are…

— Tony Abbott

I've never been one to bow down to people who try to question my identity because I don't fit their mould of…

— Shari Sebbens

Prayers never bring anything... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but…

— W. C. Fields

We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing…

— Romeo LeBlanc

One of the things non-aboriginal Canadians learned from aboriginal people over the last 400 years is you don't have to be one…

— John Ralston Saul

It is devastating that jail is seen as a rite of passage for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, part of…

— Bill Shorten

“these will suffice; who knows but we may be on a slope which leads down to aboriginal savagery. But of this 1…

— Nelson Algren

I have worked with a lot of really great women directors: Ana Kokkinos; Cate Shortland, who just recently directed a film called…

— Deborah Mailman

The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of…

— Karl Marx

Beyond Bookchin”, David Watson, of Fifth Estate, argues that aboriginal society represents a viable Utopia. He quotes favourably the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins;…

— Marshall Sahlins

Every person is a Hindu who regards and owns this Bharat Bhumi, this land from the Indus to the seas, as his…

— Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Dad once said to me that should he pass away, if there was some way of letting me know he was going…

— Julian Lennon

I have been told many times that when I win I make my people proud to be Australian. I am Aboriginal, I…

— Cathy Freeman

I assure you, Constable Morgan, I am quite sane, as I understand the word, perhaps the sanest person in this room, for…

— Rick Yancey

“She hated him, this man, and these men: the ones who picked her up without expression and used her without emotion. The…

— Cherie Dimaline

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.

— Ellsworth Huntington

Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot.

— Paul Watson

Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.

— Mary Hunter Austin

If Australia is The Lucky Country, the Aborigines must be the unluckiest people in the world.

— Frank Hardy

“It (Life) is constantly changing, and yet it remains the same.”

— Jan Hawkins

Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

— Oodgeroo Noonuccal

People look at me and they dont see what they think is a typical Aboriginal.

— Shari Sebbens

Best pic of the south sydney rabbitohs in the aboriginal colors

— Corey Jess Whitmore

Aboriginal Australia is a tough place to work, rough and tough.

— Sam Abell

I don't know whether I'm half, quarter or what. I just know I'm aboriginal.

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

We still have disgraceful policies on asylum seekers and Aboriginal Australians continue to die in custody.

— Justine Larbalestier

Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.

— Charles Darwin