"Not one great country can be named, from……" — Charles Darwin
"Not one great country can be named, from the polar regions in the north to New Zealand in the south, in which the aborigines do not tattoo themselves."
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288 Quotes by Charles Darwin
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an…
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the…
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If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their…
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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special…
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their…
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in…
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It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain…
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Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then…
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are…
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The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that…
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Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one…
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Unfortunately for many Aboriginal people, of course, they've been in the situation of being herded on government reserves. Their own…
— Lowitja O'Donoghue
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Toward the aborigines of the country no one can indulge a more friendly feeling than myself, or would go further…
— Andrew Jackson
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The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.
— William M. Evarts
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It is time to ask: are we Aborigines a serious people? … Do we have the seriousness necessary to maintain…
— Noel Pearson
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If Australia is The Lucky Country, the Aborigines must be the unluckiest people in the world.
— Frank Hardy
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber;…
— Ambrose Bierce
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One thing is certain: the call of Christ is always a promotion. Were Christ to call a king from his…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out…
— Richard Flanagan
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I have met Aborigines younger than me who used to hide every time anyone official came round their camp for…
— Richard Flanagan
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Nothing seemed to offer more striking proof to the late Victorian mind of the infernal truth of social Darwinism than…
— Richard Flanagan
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Unlike some mainland black groups, Tasmanian Aborigines now have no traditional tribal culture left. It was taken from them with…
— Richard Flanagan
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