Ginger people! D'you know what they are? Our aborigines…

The aborigines in Australia, the way they dress is very honest; it's not about: "Oh, you wear a skirt, you're gay."

— Riccardo Tisci

Aborigines are not just the oldest race in Australia; they are the oldest race on the planet. They look like dinosaurs.

— Marina Abramovic

“Australian aborigines, surprisingly, turn out to be a race unlike any other. They and their relatives in New Guinea have no trace in their…

— Nicholas Wade

In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact.

— Richard Flanagan

Unlike some mainland black groups, Tasmanian Aborigines now have no traditional tribal culture left. It was taken from them with great violence and great…

— Richard Flanagan

Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.

— Ambrose Bierce

Toward the aborigines of the country no one can indulge a more friendly feeling than myself, or would go further in attempting to reclaim…

— Andrew Jackson

Brandy is the great cause of destruction for the aborigines of America.

— Sam Houston

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

— Frank Hardy

“The burning off and the gathering together are one.”

— Billy Marshall-Stoneking

The white explorers had been my heroes. The Aborigines, I thought they were real savages. That was what I'd been taught and that's what…

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

I have met Aborigines younger than me who used to hide every time anyone official came round their camp for fear of being taken…

— Richard Flanagan

“Australian Aborigines say that the big stories — the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of…

— Robert Moss

There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even…

— Phillip Noyce

“The Australian aborigines, reckoned to be among the most primitive of races upon evidence that is far from conclusive, have a region that is…

— Olaf Ruhen