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 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
Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of… — Bruce Chatwin 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation… — Kevin Rudd 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
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
Even the Australians don't know how beautiful their own country is. Particularly where we were shooting 'The Straits.' Most of my stuff… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
I ask every Australian to think about what the constitutional exclusion says to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, to see our… — Adam Goodes Copy Share Image
At its best, Aboriginal art has been effective in translating an entire culture and the understanding of an entire continent. Indeed, the… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
I wasn't aware of the impact that I had made on the lives of Aboriginal people until I did a bit of… — Lionel Rose Copy Share Image
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
Sadly, today there are only a few remaining speakers of kakadu or gagadju. The work, then, is concerned with my feelings about… — Peter Sculthorpe Copy Share Image
As they were leading me up, I looked up and around the galleries and I could feel the whole Aboriginal race, of… — Neville Bonner Copy Share Image
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