Indigenous Quotes · Page 3

Our manufacturing in India has grown with a lot of indigenous strength.

— Nirmala Sitharaman

There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.

— Jessica Hagedorn

I am deeply sympathetic to Indigenous treatment at the hands of white society.

— Neil Macdonald

Superstition is a quality that seems indigenous to the ocean.

— James F. Cooper

Indigenous perspective is a very place-based thing.

— Lily Gladstone

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

— Malcolm Fraser

If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.

— Jay Griffiths

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

— Adam Giles

The sad truth is that mass migration, whatever the colour of the skins of those involved, upsets and worries indigenous people, especially…

— Peter Hitchens

You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers?

— Don King

No climate plan can leave workers and communities behind nor trample the rights of Indigenous communities. Canadians must have opportunity and income…

— Jagmeet Singh

Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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

— Oren Lyons

The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but…

— Evo Morales

In most Native languages, most Indigenous languages, Blackfeet included, there are no gendered pronouns. There is no he/she, there's only they.

— Lily Gladstone

In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside…

— Frank Church

In the case of my country, Guatemala, 65% of the inhabitants are indigenous. The constitution speaks of protection for the indigenous. Who…

— Rigoberta Menchu

Being the only Indian in class, I had to be able to stand up and defend myself and debate the others when…

— Perry Bellegarde

Suppose Vietnam could separate itself from the American dominated global system and carry out a successful social and economic development. Then that…

— Noam Chomsky

We must respect each other's right to choose a collective destiny, and the opportunity to develop the legal and political rights for…

— Jackie Huggins

Intellectual traditions emerging from populations that have always been the constitutive other in the development of the properly free citizen - indigenous…

— Dean Spade

Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great…

— Kevin Rudd

The media and politics have never allowed our people to speak through them. The absolute marginalization of the indigenous peoples is a…

— Rigoberta Menchu

We seem to have lost the wisdom of the indigenous people, which dictated that in any major decision, the first consideration was…

— Jane Goodall

“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 rich and powerful countries are trying to wreck as much as possible. You know, go off the cliff as soon as…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Vandana Shiva

It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like…

— David Byrne

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

— Mary Robinson

The whole military structure in Haiti that existed until the early 1990s was put in place by the American occupation. At the…

— Edwidge Danticat

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

— Rigoberta Menchu

He [Hugo Chavez] put poverty at the heart of political debate. Rightly so, given the country's immense inequality and poverty. He invested…

— Rory Carroll

I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet

— Edward James Olmos

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

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

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

— Malcolm Fraser

We want to govern with our indigenous ancestors' models: That means a different concept of participation, community work and honesty...

— Evo Morales

We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected,…

— Rigoberta Menchu