Indigenous Quotes · Page 5

Today, in Mexico, they speak 65 languages, counting the indigenous languages, 65. It is a people of great faith. They have also…

— Pope Francis

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of…

— Robin Morgan

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

— Sam Wanamaker

Indigenous languages are Canada's national treasures. They are our identity. We simply have to put greater effort into rejuvenating and revitalizing them.…

— Perry Bellegarde

“Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.”

— Andrew Dalby

Food sovereignty is an affirmation of who we are as indigenous peoples and a way, one of the most surefooted ways, to…

— Winona LaDuke

I was the first Arts Council official in the archipelago to do something for what you might call indigenous music.

— Michael Longley

Both the old and young Karamakates are portrayed by indigenous men, neither of them professional actors. The old shaman is played by…

— Tom Cole

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

— Rigoberta Menchu

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

At the end of the day, these are issues that need to be discussed: femicides, among other things - immigrant rights, women's'…

— Ruben Isaac Albarran Ortega

“Indigenous people have been tracking the same 'psychic virus' for many centuries, calling it 'wetiko' in Cree (windigo in Ojibwa, wintiko in…

— Paul Levy

To run away from life and desire is impossible because you are life and you have desire. Accept that this is part…

— Frederick Lenz

In a society where all are related, simple decisions require the approval of nearly everyone in that society. It is society as…

— Rebecca Adamson

In most of my films I write the music into the script. I'm listening to songs and lyrics that empower the themes…

— Warwick Thornton

Bolivia is in the lead internationally in talking about the threat of environmental catastrophe. It's generally true where there are indigenous populations,…

— Noam Chomsky

There seems also to be a tremendous risk to indigenous cultures if we insist that all scholarship be conducted in English. We…

— Henry Rosovsky

In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they…

— Mary Pipher

No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is…

— David Abram

“The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go…

— Ann Patchett

The environmental catastrophes we're presently seeing are considered "normal" though they're horrific. Fracking has made drinking water flammable, families are dying from…

— Alexander Weinstein

This is the welfare generation, and that is incredibly sad. That will be judged in history as being far worse, I believe,…

— Andrew Forrest

“Indigenous struggle cannot simply be accommodated within other struggles; it demands solidarity on its own terms. The”

— Cindy Milstein

I don't really think of most non-English as people, more or less indigenous squirrels that I fancy to kick around with my…

— Thom Yorke

It's time to listen to the stories of the Indigenous; we are blessed as a country to look to the wisdom of…

— Gord Downie

Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.

— Daniel Quinn

Many people who are drawn to work about racism and transphobia may be new to thinking deeply about colonialism and indigenous resistance…

— Dean Spade

You have troubles with violent indigenous movement around the continent. Here, we are putting more power in their hands and creating a…

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

It is racist, and it was racist when it was created. The Indian Act controls, or seeks to control, the lives of…

— Paul Martin

Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.

— Malcolm Fraser

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose…

— James Cameron

As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.

— Anonymous

There are good reasons to push for more Indigenous Labor MPs, not just on equity but also for what they can contribute…

— Bill Shorten

All of my works are performance pieces, as is true for many writers of color, writers who have indigenous roots - because…

— Sandra Cisneros

[Jazz] is a music of freedom and wonder. It's our indigenous art form, and I'm still blessed to travel around the world…

— Charles Lloyd

We are dealing with a multidimensional paraphysical phenomenon which is largely indigenous to planet earth.

— Brad Steiger

How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

— Black Hawk

Indigenous peoples was messed over. It was like a tradition here. We broke every treaty with them that ever was written. I…

— Dr. John