Aboriginal Quotes

Trees always remind me of Aboriginal people.

— Evonne Goolagong Cawley

The more you know the less you talk.

— A. R. Rahman

Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

The more you know, the less you carry

— Mors Kochanski

My best friend was Aboriginal.

— Isabel Lucas

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.

— John Henry Newman

My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian.

— Jessica Mauboy

I would say my flow is Aboriginal. Look at my face, nose, lips, and eyes.

— KRS-One

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

— Richard Flanagan

All industry, not just the mining industry, can get out and give Aboriginal companies a chance.

— Andrew Forrest

Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.

— Charles Darwin

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

— Tori Amos

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

— Tracey Moffatt

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

— Arthur Murray

The direction is going the right way for respect for aboriginal people in North America, and all we can do is stand…

— Robbie Robertson

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

— Nelson Algren

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect…

— Steve Irwin

I know that a prime minister of Canada needs to be deeply respectful of the other levels of government - whether it…

— Justin Trudeau

There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if…

— Tony Abbott

Colors are primordial ideas, children of the aboriginal colorless light and its counterpart, colorless darkness Light, that first phenomenon of the world,…

— Johannes Itten

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

There's no running water in a remote Aboriginal community? I can do something about that, let's go do it. I've been brought…

— Patty Mills

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

— Shari Sebbens

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

— 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

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

— Deborah Mailman

It's a very Aboriginal thing to do, to give younger people greater responsibilities within the community as they become able to take…

— Jackie Huggins

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

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

— Romeo LeBlanc

If you are a white male, you don’t deserve to live. You are a cancer, you’re a disease, white males have never…

— Noel Ignatiev

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

— Charles Alexander Eastman

“Long I have known and feared this day would come. Like the circle of Earth, the circle of life is changing. Here…

— Frederic M. Perrin

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

— Frédéric Perrin

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 smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— David Suzuki