Aboriginal Quotes

80 quotes by 62 authors

My best friend was Aboriginal. — Isabel Lucas
In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars a week. In… — John Pilger
If you are a white male, you donâ€™t deserve to live.Â You are a cancer, youâ€™re a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive… — Noel Ignatiev
To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as Maynard Dixon. The… — Thomas McGuane
We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that have… — Enrique Lihn
Why isnâ€™t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy… — Tony Abbott
There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if itâ€™s picking up… — Tony Abbott
Now, I know that there are some Aboriginal people who arenâ€™t happy with Australia Day. For them it remains Invasion Day. I think a better… — Tony Abbott
It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at… — Tony Abbott
What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready… — Tony Abbott
Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage — Tony Abbott
Australia's treatment of her Aboriginal people will be the thing on which the world will judge Australia and Australians - Not just now, but in… — Gough Whitlam
The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies. — Arthur Murray
We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families… — Arthur Murray
Dad once said to me that should he pass away, if there was some way of letting me know he was going to be ok… — Julian Lennon
The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them. — Pauline Hanson
I won the seat of Oxley largely on an issue that has resulted in me being called a racist. That issue related to my comment… — Pauline Hanson
Present governments are encouraging separatism in Australia by providing opportunities, land, moneys and facilities available only to Aboriginals. — Pauline Hanson
The children, each of those kids is in touch with nature and traditional aboriginal culture so a very important part of getting performances from them… — Phillip Noyce
Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which is not to… — John Zerzan

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