As Indigenous peoples, we know there is more to the world. We know spirits exist. We know as women, because we're especially… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
US law and international human rights law have radically diverged in the past years in terms of the recognition of indigenous people's… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
We cannot allow some people to be left at the back of the human rights bus... We must ensure the rights of… — Matthew Coon Come Copy Share Image
Sensitivity to nature is not an innate attribute of indigenous peoples. It is a consequence of adaptive choices that have resulted in… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indigenous… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
How can we possibly say the root of the Canadian approach to citizenship and immigration comes from Europe or the United States?… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
If you take a look at the breaches of rights, whether it's the underfunding of education or health care, and all these… — Paul Martin Copy Share Image
In a society where all are related, simple decisions require the approval of nearly everyone in that society. It is society as… — Rebecca Adamson Copy Share Image
We must pay close attention to those with another imagination: an imagination outside of capitalism, as well as communism. We will soon… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
In England, enclosure programs kind of destroyed the commons. In the United States, it happened later. But, ah, now it's happening in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Look, you are interested in trying to make sure that governments keep a clean environment, have regard for the lifestyles of indigenous… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
I am deeply gladdened that 1993 has been delcared the International Year of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations. It is the… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
The provision of basic material needs is not sufficient to make minority groups and indigenous peoples feel they are truly part of… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I can't imagine what it must be like to be one of the indigenous people of the United States of America. I… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
The true essence of reconciliation is more than making friends with nonindigenous people. Our motto is united Australia, one that respects the… — Jackie Huggins Copy Share Image
Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs. — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions. — Malcolm Fraser Copy Share Image
As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories. — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
“You cannot be civilized until you're decolonized, you cannot be cultured until you're unamericanized, you cannot be human until you're unwhitewashed.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
“I am not sure that energy company executives who say they want to understand the concerns of Indigenous people can actually do… — Ryan Emanuel Copy Share Image
It is racist, and it was racist when it was created. The Indian Act controls, or seeks to control, the lives of… — Paul Martin Copy Share Image
So "Embrace Of The Serpent" is told from the points of view and in the languages of the indigenous peoples of the… — Tom Cole Copy Share Image
My favourite moment from the Oscars was when Brando didn't attend and sent a Native American woman to talk about Wounded Knee.… — Anohni Copy Share Image
For Indigenous people, the goal for our land is definitely about protection, but it's also about use. We see ourselves as so… — Rebecca Adamson Copy Share Image
We are at last being recognised as the indigenous people of this country whom must share in its future. This is not… — Galarrwuy Yunupingu Copy Share Image
“But the real kicker came with the revelation that Denisovan DNA was alive and well in contemporary Melanesians—the indigenous people of Fiji,… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
Baldness that appears to be normal is a disease in Europe, almost all of them are bald, and that is because of… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another. Survival itself… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
I would like to quote a very prejudicial doctrine that was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1823. It said that… — Floyd Red Crow Westerman Copy Share Image
No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is… — David Abram Copy Share Image
For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples -… — David Abram Copy Share Image
In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies,… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The importance of the term "genocide" for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
“There is no environment "out there" that is separate from us. We can't manage our impact on the environment if we are… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
“The social realities that Indigenous people face today are that they live among other Canadians, frequently intermarry, and have other relationships that… — Pamela D. Palmater Copy Share Image
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