Aboriginal Quote by Charles Darwin

Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.

— Charles Darwin

“Scholars have estimated that by 1850, the aboriginal population in North America—besieged by the invaders’ explosive weaponry, wondrous technology, contemptuous cruelty, and irresistible pathogens,…

— Richard Kluger

In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the…

— Mary Hunter Austin

In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact.

— Richard Flanagan

“There is no doubt that the destiny of indigenous races has been tragic in the process of contact with European invasion… The historian of…

— Bronisław Malinowski

Yet and still, Peter Norman took into account that the aboriginals were suffering just as much in Australia as Blacks in the United States…

— John Carlos

“Europeans killed many native people directly without the assistance of disease. In some instances, they intentionally used disease as a biological weapon by, for…

— Douglas Preston

“That European diseases ran rampant in the New World is an old story, but recent discoveries in genetics, epidemiology, and archaeology have painted a…

— Douglas Preston

“Before the first settlers arrived on American shores, a massive plague, or series of plagues, had essentially annihilated the indigenous peoples. They”

— Evan Currie

“By comparison, the dispossession and destruction of Indigenous populations—which the Society, for one, consistently linked to slavery—was largely ignored by the public. For the…

— Stefanos Geroulanos

Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.

— Roberto Bolano

What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.

— Euripides