Indigenous Quotes · Page 2

Not a centimetre will be demarcated for Indigenous reserves.

— Jair Bolsonaro

“Indigenous foods die when no one learns to cook them.”

— Jean Zimmerman

Yes, I’m proud to be indigenous. I’m half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.

— Q'orianka Kilcher

“We are still waiting for our welcoming ceremonies.”

— Colleen Cardinal

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

— Rebecca Adamson

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

— Peter Norman

Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.

— Evo Morales

Bengal's indigenous art and craft is widely popular throughout the world.

— Sharmila Tagore

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

— Bianca Jagger

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

— Tom Shadyac

The scariness of manhood to males may be symbolically seen in the many stories of indigenous Australian boys who ran away and…

— Michael Leunig

I don't close myself to the possibility of someplace outside the United States, but it would have to be someplace with an…

— Sandra Cisneros

Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the…

— Hope Mirrlees

We focus on bringing back Indigenous languages, ceremonies, cultures, traditions - all that was lost over the past 150 years. This is…

— Perry Bellegarde

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having…

— Alistair Cooke

We hope the Bell Shakespeare Company will become an indigenous part of the Globe Shakespeare Centre in Australia.

— Sam Wanamaker

“A warrior confronts colonialism with the truth in order to regenerate authenticity and recreate a life worth living and principles worth dying…

— Taiaiake Alfred

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 you're not smart enough to know what Fidel meant during the Cuban revolution, that - when they were on the Granma…

— Steven Soderbergh

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

We hide our racism. We just go on about our lives - may I say, white Canadians go on about their lives.…

— Constance Backhouse

I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain…

— Serj Tankian

I started studying indigenous cultures and I was really inspired by their life styles and the way that they lived. Part of…

— Shailene Woodley

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 idea is the least labor and capital and resources you put together and the more you accumulate the better capitalist you…

— Winona LaDuke

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

— Arundhati Roy

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

— Scott Glenn

Love--what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear, A seventh heaven in a glance, a whirlwind in a sigh,…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even…

— Martin Luther King Jr

The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North…

— Anonymous

I noticed - and this is one of the people don't understand of Tony [Abbot] - he grew. To me he grew…

— Warren Mundine

Human beings everywhere in the world are affected by the global media now. Still, what I have noticed in the east Asia,…

— Gary Snyder

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

— Abhijit Naskar

Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Obviously, my Indigenous culture is very special to me.

— Jessica Mauboy

Although wrongs have been done me I live in hope. ... Now we are together again to make peace.

— Black Kettle

The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.

— Pat Conroy

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

— Malcolm Fraser

Indigenous perspective is a very place-based thing.

— Lily Gladstone

I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.

— Adam Giles