I'm going to win it for my country. I'm the first…

I won the seat of Oxley largely on an issue that has resulted in me being called a racist. That issue related to my…

— Pauline Hanson

I'd much rather people knew me as a good tennis player than as an aboriginal who happens to play good tennis. Of course I'm…

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

One of my earliest memories is being backstage at 'Bran Nue Dae' in Darwin when I was about eight. It's such a fun, happy…

— Shari Sebbens

Aboriginal people are key because they have a different sense of where we belong and how we interact with nature.

— David Suzuki

We've had real strong aboriginal male artists who've crossed over to the mainstream who have toured the U.K., who have been a massive influence…

— Jessica Mauboy

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

— Mary Hunter Austin

In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children.

— Richard Flanagan

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion forbade the…

— Charles Alexander Eastman

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

— Arthur Murray

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems.…

— Malcolm Fraser

“If they follow the way of Money Chiefs, they shall die. Earth is sick and can no longer care for her children. Now, Earth’s…

— Frédéric Perrin

I have written with some amazing singers and songwriters - the moment with Snoop Dogg was amazing - but being able to tell an…

— Jessica Mauboy

In the European tradition, rivers are seen as divisions between peoples. But in the Aboriginal tradition, rivers are seen as the glue, the highway,…

— John Ralston Saul

People look at me, and they don't see what they think is a typical Aboriginal. I always thought I'd be the white person in…

— Shari Sebbens

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman.…

— Theodore Roosevelt