Indigenous Quotes · Page 6

Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to…

— Franklin Foer

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized…

— Alice Walker

Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that…

— Mike Myers

For the developed world, there is a choice to be made: to promote economic policies that despoil indigenous lands or to support…

— Paul Hawken

In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also…

— Terri Windling

If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land - you lose your culture, you lose self.

— Richard Gere

My family, we're indigenous people from San Luis Potosi in Central Mexico. My father moved to Detroit and brought all of us…

— Sixto Rodriguez

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

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

“This principle of reciprocity--a give-and-take in a relationship of balance--is not just some transaction done to advance one's own aims. Traditionally, Native…

— Randy Woodley

“By comparison, the dispossession and destruction of Indigenous populations—which the Society, for one, consistently linked to slavery—was largely ignored by the public.…

— Stefanos Geroulanos

All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of…

— Sarah Zettel

To annihilate indigenous populations eventually paves the way to our own annihilation. They are the only people who practice sustainable living. We…

— Arundhati Roy

The true essence of reconciliation is more than making friends with nonindigenous people. Our motto is united Australia, one that respects the…

— Jackie Huggins

If you're Filipino, you're the beaner of the Asian community 'cause you're just like us. You're indigenous people that got banged by…

— Carlos Mencia

There are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions - not just black women but other women of color. Not just people…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“Use the act of breathing to shape air into sounds that take on the context of language that lifts and transports those…

— Richard Wagamese

Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous…

— Robert Jensen

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

There is no reason to not trust your process, no reason to get frustrated, no reason to criticize, or judge others, nothing…

— Bryan Kest

We probably have, right now, after the Civil Rights movement - and this was very unfortunate - the most glaring time of…

— John Henrik Clarke

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

— Ann Patchett

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

— David Abram

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

— Mary Pipher

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

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

— Dean Spade

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

— Daniel Quinn

“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 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

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

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

— Black Hawk

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

— Brad Steiger

[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

The way that I represent Australia and indigenous Australia affects other people as well from other cultures.

— Patty Mills

The indigenous population is not responsible [for rising HIV infection rates]. It is the foreigners that we have to focus on.

— Robert Kilroy-Silk

All the Indigenous paintings throughout history, they were always a bird's eye view, it's the Indigenous way of storytelling.

— Aaron Pedersen

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

— Dr. John