Indigenous Peoples Quotes
23 quotes by 20 authors
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Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In…
— James Cameron
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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
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As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.
— Daniel Kahikina Akaka
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We are now facing a difficult situation in Peru, where there are attempts to cut back the territorial rights of the indigenous peoples, including moves…
— Evaristo Nugkuag
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Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has…
— Alice Walker
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Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All…
— Wade Davis
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When Europeans arrived on this continent, they blew it with the Native Americans. They plowed over them, taking as much as they could of their…
— Mary Pipher
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I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading…
— Rigoberta Menchu
Who Wrote These Indigenous Peoples Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 23 Indigenous Peoples Quotes as follows: