"Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering……" — Ambrose Bierce

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• Unfortunately for many Aboriginal people, of course, they've been in the situation of being herded on government reserves. Their own… — Lowitja O'Donoghue
• Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south,… — Charles Darwin
• Toward the aborigines of the country no one can indulge a more friendly feeling than myself, or would go further… — Andrew Jackson
• The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines. — William M. Evarts
• It is time to ask: are we Aborigines a serious people? … Do we have the seriousness necessary to maintain… — Noel Pearson
• If Australia is The Lucky Country, the Aborigines must be the unluckiest people in the world. — Frank Hardy
• One thing is certain: the call of Christ is always a promotion. Were Christ to call a king from his… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
• The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong… — Kurt Vonnegut
• In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out… — Richard Flanagan
• I have met Aborigines younger than me who used to hide every time anyone official came round their camp for… — Richard Flanagan
• Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than… — Richard Flanagan
• Unlike some mainland black groups, Tasmanian Aborigines now have no traditional tribal culture left. It was taken from them with… — Richard Flanagan

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