Indigenous People Quotes

49 quotes by 36 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• I support the indigenous people anywhere in the planet — Edward James Olmos
• 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
• 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
• 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
• I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people. — Steven Biko
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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:

• 5 Indigenous People Quotes by Rebecca Adamson
• 4 Indigenous People Quotes by Malcolm Fraser
• 3 Indigenous People Quotes by Evo Morales
• 2 Indigenous People Quotes by David Abram
• 2 Indigenous People Quotes by Galarrwuy Yunupingu
• 2 Indigenous People Quotes by Steven Biko
• 2 Indigenous People Quotes by Jackie Huggins
• 1 Indigenous People Quote by Mick Dodson
• 1 Indigenous People Quote by Matthew Coon Come
• 1 Indigenous People Quote by Charlie Cook
• 1 Indigenous People Quote by Samuel Ruiz
• 1 Indigenous People Quote by John Zerzan
• 1 Indigenous People Quote by Aung San Suu Kyi
• 1 Indigenous People Quote by Floyd Red Crow Westerman
• 1 Indigenous People Quote by Tania Major
• 1 Indigenous People Quote by Daniel Kahikina Akaka
• 1 Indigenous People Quote by Edward James Olmos
• 1 Indigenous People Quote by Evaristo Nugkuag
• 1 Indigenous People Quote by Rigoberta Menchu
• 1 Indigenous People Quote by Paul Farmer
• 1 Indigenous People Quote by James W. Loewen
• 1 Indigenous People Quote by Jane Goodall
• 1 Indigenous People Quote by Nancy Pearcey
• 1 Indigenous People Quote by Jay Griffiths
• 1 Indigenous People Quote by Jessica Hagedorn