Indigenous people Quotes

“In a world run by the indigenous, no ethnicity is the second race.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Center of the world is indigenous.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet

— Edward James Olmos

This is a coca leaf. This is not cocaine. This represents the culture of indigenous people of the Andean region.

— Evo Morales

I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.

— Steven Biko

The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept among indigenous people. We invented that.

— Tom Shadyac

Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.

— Nancy Pearcey

This is an Australia I'm willing to celebrate; an Australia that listens, learns and empathises with our Indigenous people.

— Madeleine Madden

I can't even imagine how many indigenous people Columbus would have murdered if he didn't get Columbus Day off.

— Anonymous

Indigenous people in films, it's all, like, nose flutes and panpipes and, you know, people talking to ghosts... which I hate.

— Taika Waititi

Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.

— Oren Lyons

“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

Using the latest in science and technology to shatter today's economic paradigm of 'insatiable individuals competing for scarce resources,' Planetary Citizenship brings…

— Rebecca Adamson

The way I think we were living is an invention. The truth is nobody can own anything. That was an unheard-of concept…

— Tom Shadyac

Let us not be tempted by those who try to find the unique qualities in a particular group. In this case, among…

— Nelson Mandela

If anyone can say 'go back,' it's Native Americans. My Pueblo ancestors, despite being targeted at every juncture - despite facing famine…

— Deb Haaland

Argentina is really in a different category because they butchered all their Indian or indigenous people in the war of the desert…

— John Gimlette

Many years ago, I started a foundation [Wayuu Taya Foundation] to help improve the life of Latin American indigenous people, providing them…

— Patricia Velasquez

“If you steal from the thieves, can they call the cops! If you heist from the blackmarket, is it really a crime!…

— Abhijit Naskar

Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break…

— Paul Farmer

Look, you are interested in trying to make sure that governments keep a clean environment, have regard for the lifestyles of indigenous…

— Mary Robinson

One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common…

— Vandana Shiva

If you can imagine the one family continuously occupying the same land for 40,000 years or more, using it not just to…

— Tania Major

I am deeply gladdened that 1993 has been delcared the International Year of Indigenous Peoples by the United Nations. It is the…

— Rigoberta Menchu

The third season of the Leftovers came along and Damon Lindelof sent me the script to Episode 3, and I called him…

— Scott Glenn

We must pay close attention to those with another imagination: an imagination outside of capitalism, as well as communism. We will soon…

— Arundhati Roy

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

“Shamanism resembles an academic discipline (such as anthropology or molecular biology); with its practitioners, fundamental researchers, specialists, and schools of thought it…

— Jeremy Narby

“Respecting indigenous leadership is not the same as waiting around to be told what to do while you do nothing. "I am…

— Harsha Walia

“To attack a system that has evolved to contain social movements through elite representation, we believe in the absolute necessity of autonomous…

— Tipu's Tiger

“It's important to remember that having a conversation about us (LGBT) without us will usually be a recycling or preconceived ideas and…

— Anthony Venn-Brown

“Human beings have a natural urge to worship that “something greater” which coheres us, but we, in modernity, are living in a…

— Toko-pa Turner

Education will lead to understanding; understanding will lead to action. Education and understanding are going to be key to moving us forward.…

— Perry Bellegarde

“The Lacandones have a prophecy that the world will be destroyed when the last mahogany tree is gone. The mahogany is the…

— Ralph Metzner

There is a beautiful expression in Nicaragua: "struggle is the highest form of song". I love that. We are in the struggle.…

— Eve Ensler

What we do to our native Australians, our own indigenous people, is nothing short of horrific.

— Peter Norman

We are all indigenous people on this planet, and we have to reorganize to get along.

— Rebecca Adamson

I think the relationship of indigenous people to their environment... that those were ethical omnivores.

— James Cromwell

We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.

— Malcolm Fraser

Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

— Malcolm Fraser