Aboriginal Quotes
80 quotes by 62 authors
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The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America.
— Ellsworth Huntington
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My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status,…
— Steve Irwin
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I had spent some time in the outback, but to meet Aboriginals and work with them was wonderful. It gave me a great appreciation of…
— Hugh Jackman
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We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater…
— Romeo LeBlanc
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Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.
— Charles Darwin
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I assure you, Constable Morgan, I am quite sane, as I understand the word, perhaps the sanest person in this room, for I suffer from…
— Rick Yancey
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Our prime minister could embrace and forgive the people who killed our beloved sons and fathers, and so he should, but he could not, would…
— Peter Carey
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Native people - about two-thirds of the uranium in the United States is on indigenous lands. On a worldwide scale, about 70 percent of the…
— Winona LaDuke
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All industry, not just the mining industry, can get out and give Aboriginal companies a chance.
— Andrew Forrest
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In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children.
— Richard Flanagan
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Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal…
— Richard Flanagan
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We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred ground for the shots coming up the cliff.
— Christopher Atkins
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They…
— Malcolm Fraser
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Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on…
— Phillip Noyce
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We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.…
— Kevin Rudd
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We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity.…
— Kevin Rudd
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My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian.
— Jessica Mauboy
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A lot of my identity as an Aboriginal person is about family.
— Shari Sebbens
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We acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land and pay our respects to the elders both past, present and future for they hold the memories,…
— Tamika-leeigh
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Best pic of the south sydney rabbitohs in the aboriginal colors
— Corey Jess Whitmore
Who Wrote These Aboriginal Quotes
62 authors contributed a total of 80 Aboriginal Quotes, led by these top contributors: