Indigenous Quotes

160 quotes by 110 authors

All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System… — Sarah Zettel
Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in… — James W. Loewen
Using the latest in science and technology to shatter today's economic paradigm of 'insatiable individuals competing for scarce resources,' Planetary Citizenship brings us full circle… — Rebecca Adamson
Yes, Iâ€™m proud to be indigenous. Iâ€™m half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru. — Q'orianka Kilcher
A great deal of anthropological/ethnological literature describes indigenous peoples who live in oneness with the natural world and one another. Survival itself necessitates a borderlessness… — John Zerzan
No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is any event entirely… — David Abram
For the Amahuaca, the Koyukon, the Apache, and the diverse Aboriginal peoples of Australia - as for numerous other indigenous peoples - the coherence of… — David Abram
Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the… — Alistair Cooke
For Indigenous people, the goal for our land is definitely about protection, but it's also about use. We see ourselves as so integrated with our… — Rebecca Adamson
We are all indigenous people on this planet, and we have to reorganize to get along. — Rebecca Adamson
Although wrongs have been done me I live in hope. ... Now we are together again to make peace. — Black Kettle
If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land - you lose your culture, you lose self. — Richard Gere
Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ... We are perhaps… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The provision of basic material needs is not sufficient to make minority groups and indigenous peoples feel they are truly part of the greater national… — Aung San Suu Kyi
All cultures forged by nationsâ€”the noble indigenous past of America, the brilliant civilization of Europe, the wise history of Asian nations, and the ancestral wealth… — Subcomandante Marcos
I would like to quote a very prejudicial doctrine that was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1823. It said that the Indian Nations… — Floyd Red Crow Westerman
It is impossible to restore the sustainable societies of indigenous and aboriginal peoples. But the values they embodied - careful stewardship of the earth, modest… — Jeremy Seabrook
Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in… — Franklin Foer
The relationship between the government of the United States and social and indigenous movements has always been difficult. Not just in Bolivia but worldwide. We… — Evo Morales
We seem to have lost the wisdom of the indigenous people, which dictated that in any major decision, the first consideration was 'How will this… — Jane Goodall

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110 authors contributed a total of 160 Indigenous Quotes, led by these top contributors: