The concepts of community and community life, have since the Dreaming, always held special significance for Aboriginal people because both provided the… — Ken Wyatt Copy Share Image
We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Its been instilled in me since I was young that I have to use my platform to change the world. Thats something… — Madeleine Madden Copy Share Image
The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting… — Richard Allen Copy Share Image
Many people just won't connect the social problems with the history of dispossession of the aboriginals. There is one problem with pro-Palestinian… — Amira Hass Copy Share Image
The Germans themselves I should regard as aboriginal, and not mixed at all with other races through immigration or intercourse. For in… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My family came to Australia on the First Fleet. My family’s been in that country for a long time, over 100 years.… — Iggy Azalea Copy Share Image
My reluctance to enter any relationship with men has been affected by the fact that many Aboriginal men are very wounded and… — Marilyn Dumont Copy Share Image
More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“Whose voice was first sounded on this land? The voice of the red people who had but bows and arrows. [...] What… — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
At the close of my visit, my Hawaiian friends urged me strongly to publish my impressions and experiences, on the ground that… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
What is important is that I have been able to demonstrate to other women and also to Aboriginal people generally that Aboriginal… — Pat O'Shane Copy Share Image
The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In dealing with the State, we ought to remember that its institutions are not aboriginal, though they existed before we were born;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We learned Russian music, and of course Western European classical music, but nothing from our own Tuvan culture. I think that was… — Albert Kuvezin Copy Share Image
My art speaks and will continue to speak, transcending barriers of nationality, language and other forces that may be divisive, fortifying the… — Norval Morrisseau Copy Share Image
It is impossible to restore the sustainable societies of indigenous and aboriginal peoples. But the values they embodied - careful stewardship of… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never… — Quentin Bryce Copy Share Image
We as Aboriginal people still have to fight to prove that we are straight out plain human beings, the same as everyone… — Neville Bonner Copy Share Image
It had never occurred to me that my colour - or lack of it - was an issue for some people, but… — Shari Sebbens Copy Share Image
The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting… — Phillip Noyce Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, any Aboriginal that gets out there and accepts money that has been put out as a package… — Warren Mundine Copy Share Image
“When I started school in 1958 there were no books written by Aboriginals in the school system and everything about Native life… — Rick Revelle Copy Share Image
In 1976 I was working in the Gulf Country around Cape York, in an aboriginal community of about 300 people. The Health… — Archie Kalokerinos Copy Share Image
The most dangerous thing is a bored teenager. They have the stigma of being Indigenous, Aboriginal, and all the trappings that come… — Warwick Thornton Copy Share Image
The aboriginal peoples of Australia illustrate the conflict between technology and the natural world succinctly, by asking, 'What will you do when… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years… — Phillip Noyce Copy Share Image
In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
“Australian History: … does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“For your Jesus said you're supposed to give the oppressed a better deal” — Kev Carmody Copy Share Image
We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred ground for the shots coming up the cliff. — Christopher Atkins Copy Share Image
“When you think of somebody all the time it means one of two things - either you hate their guts or you… — Phillip Gwynne Copy Share Image
You can create something strong in art with a few notes. It is like how Aboriginal drawings have a simplicity that is… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
![“My family came to Australia on the First Fleet. My family’s been in that country for a long time, over 100 years. If your family’s lived in Australia for a long time, everyone has a little bit of [Aborigine blood]. I know my family does because we have an eye condition that only Aboriginal people…” quote by Iggy Azalea](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d97/iggy-azalea-6961_aboriginal_my-family-came-to-australia-on-the-first_1024036.jpg)
![“Whose voice was first sounded on this land? The voice of the red people who had but bows and arrows. [...] What has been done in my country I did not want, did not ask for it; white people going through my country. [...] When the white man comes in my country he leaves a trail of blood behind him…” quote by Red Cloud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f9c/red-cloud-32664_aboriginal_whose-voice-was-first-sounded-on-this-la_414364.jpg)
![“The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages, though it is apt to be also the most terrible and inhuman. The rude, fierce settler who drives the savage from the land lays all civilized mankind under a debt to him. ...[I]t is of incalculable importance that America, Australia…” quote by Theodore Roosevelt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b16/theodore-roosevelt-218_aboriginal_the-most-ultimately-righteous-of-all-war_273010.jpg)
