Indigenous People Quotes
49 quotes by 36 authors
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We must respect each other's right to choose a collective destiny, and the opportunity to develop the legal and political rights for Indigenous and non-Indigenous…
— Jackie Huggins
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What Australia was before is the fullest Australia has ever been... as created and made and valued by indigenous people. The white man came here…
— Galarrwuy Yunupingu
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We are at last being recognised as the indigenous people of this country whom must share in its future. This is not a day of…
— Galarrwuy Yunupingu
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For Indigenous peoples , the impact of separating us from our heritage goes directly to the heart that pumps life through our peoples. To expect…
— Mick Dodson
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If you can imagine the one family continuously occupying the same land for 40,000 years or more, using it not just to sustain life but…
— Tania Major
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We cannot allow some people to be left at the back of the human rights bus... We must ensure the rights of individual groups or…
— Matthew Coon Come
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The idea of regularly acknowledging our indebtedness to the natural world and giving thanks for the many gifts we receive from it, or considering other…
— Charlie Cook
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The indigenous peoples understand that they have to recover their cultural identity, or to live it if they have already recovered it. They also understand…
— Samuel Ruiz
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I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet
— Edward James Olmos
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The true essence of reconciliation is more than making friends with nonindigenous people. Our motto is united Australia, one that respects the land and the…
— Jackie Huggins
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Baldness that appears to be normal is a disease in Europe, almost all of them are bald, and that is because of the things they…
— Evo Morales
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We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth.…
— Steven Biko
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I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people.
— Steven Biko
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Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of…
— Paul Farmer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Indigenous People Quotes
36 authors contributed a total of 49 Indigenous People Quotes, led by these top contributors: